Two dolphins in China's Liaoning Province owe gratitude to Bao Xishun for reaching down their throats to remove dangerous plastic from their stomachs.

 

Bao Xishun, center, the tallest living man in the world observes dolphins in an oceanarium and amusement park in Fushun of northeast China's Liaoning Province Wednesday, Dec 13, 2006.

The dolphins managed to swallow some of the plastic skids used to prevent slipping around the outside of their aquarium in Fushun. Veterinarians tried to remove the plastic shards surgically, but the dolphins' stomach contractions made it impossible.

 

Officially listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest man at 7-foot-7, Bao Xishun came to the rescue, the Xinhua News Agency reported. A dozen men restrained the animals. The dolphins' upper jaws were tied with towels to protect Bao's 3-foot, 4-inch arms.

 

The plastic had been in the dolphins' stomachs for two weeks officials say.

 

Bao lives near Chifeng City and his height does not result from a medical condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bao Xishun, the tallest living man in the world uses his arm and hand to fetch an unknown object in a dolphin's stomach at an oceanarium and amusement park in Fushun of northeast China's Liaoning Province Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006.  

 

Bao Xishun, the tallest living man in the world, fetches unknown objects in a dolphin's stomach at an oceanarium and amusement park in Fushun of northeast China's Liaoning province Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006.

 

(CRI December 14, 2006)