"I have never seen anything like this," Joan Gonzalvo of the Ionian Dolphin Project told New Scientist. "My hypothesis is that the dolphin might have attacked - tried to prey on the octopus - and somehow to avoid it the octopus just attached to the dolphin's belly."
Makes sense, considering that whales are known to breach in order to shake free of parasites.
Gonzalvo posted a short story about the peculiar encounter on the Dolphin Project blog, under the headline, "Naughty octopus," because of the sensitive region on which the crafty cephalopod latched onto.
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/33893/bottlenose+dolphin+falls+under+attack+by+naughty+octopus/
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