Watch a Dolphin Get Somebody's Phone Back

Dolphin smartphone
A bottlenose dophin pictured at Sea World in San Diego July 21, 2003. Mike Blake/Reuters

A woman has posted footage on Facebook of a dolphin retrieving her mobile phone after she says she dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean.

The owner of the phone, Teresa Cee, a dancer and model, said in a post last week that the phone had been left with a friend on a floating platform near Blue Lagoon Island in the Bahamas while she went swimming with dolphins. However, the friend accidentally dropped the phone overboard.

A dolphin named Cacique then retrieved the phone and brought it back up to the surface for her.

In the video, Cee is heard saying, "Thanks, it's never gonna work again but thanks!"

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