Kelly Ripa Once “Jumped Into The Water” In Mexico And Tried To “Communicate With The Dolphins” After Taping A ‘Live’ Segment

The distinction between a “trained” and “wild” dolphin proved to be a slippery slope — or rather, a flippery one — for Kelly Ripa .

On Tuesday’s Live with Kelly and Mark , Mark Consuelos brought up “how AI is on the cusp of a breakthrough that would allow people and animals to talk to each other in 12 to 36 months.”

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“Experts predict AI will allow people to communicate with their household pets and even wild animals,” he explained. “Researchers around the world are using digital bioacoustics, tiny portable digital recorders to capture the sounds, tics, and behaviors of animals that are too quiet or nuanced to pick up on.”

This ultimately prompted Ripa to share “the reason Mark is saying this,” which goes all the way back to a friend’s 50th birthday party in Mexico they attended “many years ago.”

“And they rented a boat for sunset cocktails,” she recalled. “And all of a sudden, in the water, we were surrounded by wild dolphins.”

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Consuelos quipped, “Or just dolphins.”

Following laughter from the audience, Consuelos teased, “They were wild .”

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However, Ripa insisted that she was “getting to the point of why [she] said ‘wild dolphins.'”

“So, we had just done the show in Miami, and we had gone to the Seaquarium,” she recounted. “And I swam with the dolphins, and we were doing a tape piece where we communicate with the dolphins. So I, Kelly Ripa, jump into the water and go, ‘I know how to talk to the dolphins!'”

She and Consuelos proceeded to mimic dolphin sounds, as Ripa teased, “I’m like, ‘I’m going to call them over.'”

“And our friend, Brian, was standing on the bow of the boat and he’s going, ‘Kel, get back on the boat. Those are wild dolphins. Those aren’t trained dolphins,'” she recalled amid laughter. “But in my mind, I thought I could talk to the dolphins, because I had spoken so fluently to them.”

Consuelos joked, “Yeah, you need to be able to do that in Spanish, and then it would’ve been fine.”

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