{"id":1272,"date":"2023-09-16T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-behaviour-that-stunned-scientists-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:34:19","slug":"the-surprising-behaviour-that-stunned-scientists-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-behaviour-that-stunned-scientists-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising behaviour that stunned scientists &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ty7fAESuJjs?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Scientists have discovered a unique behaviour among the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea.<br \/>\nThe dolphins deliberately rub themselves through the fronds of a bush-like coral called a gorgonian.<br \/>\nResearchers now believe this to be a form of self-medication that could unlock the secrets of natural remedies in the ocean and start the development of new drugs for humans.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Maarten van Rouveroy<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ty7fAESuJjs\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a unique behaviour among the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea. The dolphins deliberately rub themselves through the fronds of a bush-like coral called a gorgonian. Researchers now believe this to be a form of self-medication that could unlock the secrets of natural remedies in the ocean and start the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}