A rare baby dolphin was rescued from a water channel in rural north India and returned to a nearby river. <br /><br />The dolphin was discovered on February 10 in a water miner in the village of Saraiya, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. <br /><br />The shallow miner drains water was reportedly connected to the nearby river Ghaghra, where the dolphin is believed to have swam from. <br /><br />The villagers informed district forest department about the trapped marine mammal, and a rescue effort was organised to return it to the Ghaghra river. <br /><br />The dolphin, believed to be an endangered South Asian river dolphin, was around five feet long and took two hours for the rescue operation to free it.
