Piquet's Dolphin Calf Nursing

It's a Boy! Piquet's new calf, a male White-sided dolphin, born Monday at 12:10 a.m., was confirmed nursing when he was only 7 hours old. The calf’s next milestones include improving his nursing skills and gaining weight.

[@stevensadleir]

Thank you. I just watch spinner dolphins nursing on the Big Island, how cute.

[@karoonboomie2813]

SSSSSOOOOOOOO AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL ~ SUCH GORGEOUS CREATURES

[@MegaMindyLou]

How do they know where to nurse? What a cutie!

[@najayreid8947]

God made everyone with instincts

[@rabidheartbeats5953]

if you place a newborn human on the mother's stomach, it'll eventually crawl to the breast on it's own

[@dr.tanneianicholson162]

Humans know too.

[@ms.kalico4489]

I find it incredibly sad that they are captive and away from their family.

[@genesiskravitz8621]

Gorgeous nature

[@meganhartman83]

So beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[@Fox.White.]

@@King-Hammurabi what ?

[@markdorais2846]

So Beautiful. 🐬🐬🐬

[@StarLabs3D]

Awesome

[@EUGENEBELLE]

So beautiful, I wish they can live in the wild, their true home.

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

They're safer at the aquarium.

[@alanna647]

xxwhispersxx Tell that to the babies that died at seaworld

[@spark300c]

still in seaworld babies have slight better change of make it to age one than one in the wild.

[@janinebelleestrada7096]

@@alanna647 naaahhhh chinese fishermen amd even some foreign fishermen killed like a lot of our native whale sharks

[@blackimpostor9509]

Why mother can't move while breastfeeding

[@unnashan2975]

Cute

[@wyattass436]

this comment section

[@beaua.8388]

So sad to see such a beautiful animal in captivity. This baby dolphin will never know what it’s like to swim free in the ocean with a large family of dolphins 😢

[@Fox.White.]

I agree

[@TherealHRHMarissa]

Hahaha see baby, this dolphin can catch up with mama and nurse while swimming. Why can't you nurse?

[@shinelikearock]

Would be nice to hear them or maybe euphoric music and not humans in an office. Lol

[@winterbirds8022]

Thank you Jesus for all that you have made...! 🙏🕊️🌎💕

[@ThelmaThais1]

😡 I DONT LIKE TO SEE ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY!!! KARMA WILL HAUNT EVERY HUMAN THAT DO IT ANIMAL CRUELTY IS A SIN AND HAS TO END

[@tokingnome]

Dolphins r dumb it didnt even suckle

[@orcawithdrip827]

Marina Sparks It was clearly suckling.

[@umbraemilitos]

It was... if you knew where to look.

[@potatohead785]

They don't exactly "suckle".
Here I was curious cuz dolphins can't shape their lips however they want so... I found this article "Beneath each of the female’s two mammary slits are teats. The calf places his/her beak, slightly ajar, into the slit, and forms a “cone” with its tongue, which latches onto the teat. “Let-down” or milk-ejection, is under voluntary control of the mother. This way, none of the milk is lost into the water."

[@vabbe71]

that's cruel torture keeping such lare sweet gentle animals in these small pools. barbaric psychopath behavior to make money and nothing else