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* In ''Literature/NotQuiteAMermaid'', Electra's best friend is a dolphin named Splash. In ''Mermaid Promise'', a pod of wild dolphins pays a visit to Mermaid Island. Electra and Splash go to play tag with them, although Electra is so much slower than the others that she sits out most of the game.
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* In ''Literature/IntoTheDeep'' by Ken Grimwood a marine biologist learns from her dolphin friends that there is an earth threatening disaster.
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* ''Literature/VenusAmongTheFishes'': Coral, an Atlantic white-sided dolphin, hates and fears humans at first, but after she's captured, she learns to like and trust them. She enjoys doing tricks for an audience and forms a close bond with one of her trainers, Mark.
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* ''WebVideo/NewLifeSMP'': The Dolphinkin origin, held by Sausage in his fourth life, is explicitly described to be "playful" and can spring themselves forward while swimming using their tails. They fit the friendly part of the bill by their ability to grant the Dolphin's Grace effect to any entity for 30 seconds, allowing them to swim faster.
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* Wild orcas, like other dolphins, do exhibit curiosity and even playfulness towards boats, with behaviors ranging from approaching to seemingly putting on a show of breaching and splashing to bowriding. Unfortunately, one group of orcas in the waters off the Iberian peninsula seems to see boats as a threat and have taken to ramming and disabling them on sight, usually targeting and making off with the boat rudders. Or at least that's how some biologists see this; others surmise that these orcas are engaging in overblown play behavior, thus still technically playing this trope straight--the "playful" part at any rate.
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* Wild orcas, like other dolphins, do exhibit curiosity and even playfulness towards boats, with behaviors ranging from approaching to seemingly putting on a show of breaching and splashing to bowriding. Unfortunately, one group of orcas in the waters off the Iberian peninsula seems to see boats as a threat and have taken to ramming and disabling them on sight, usually targeting and making off with the boat rudders. Or at least that's how some biologists see this; others surmise that these orcas are engaging in overblown play behavior, thus still technically playing this trope straight--the straight -- the "playful" part at any rate.
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* Bottlenose dolphins have been observed playing with and prodding pufferfish into releasing small amounts of tetrodotoxin [[note]]the poison that makes puffers unpalatable to most predators and is downright deadly to humans when ingested[[/note]]. The reason? Apparently to get high from it! That's right, dolphins are the sea's answer to potheads.
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* Bottlenose dolphins have been observed playing with and prodding pufferfish into releasing small amounts of tetrodotoxin [[note]]the tetrodotoxin[[note]]the poison that makes puffers unpalatable to most predators and is downright deadly to humans when ingested[[/note]]. The reason? Apparently to get high from it! That's right, dolphins are the sea's answer to potheads.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': While the selkie Kona and the half-mermaid Tempest are swimming together in ''Tempest Rising'', they run into a pod of dolphins that prod Tempest with their noses and then spin through the water. When Tempest tries to imitate them, she keeps tumbling over them, which makes the dolphins laugh.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': ''Literature/Tempest2011'': While the selkie Kona and the half-mermaid Tempest are swimming together in ''Tempest Rising'', they run into a pod of dolphins that prod Tempest with their noses and then spin through the water. When Tempest tries to imitate them, she keeps tumbling over them, which makes the dolphins laugh.
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* ''Literature/DolphinSong'' is about a girl who becomes friends with dolphins and learns how to communicate with them.
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* ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'': One of the items on the bucket list is to swim with dolphins, which the group manage to do in the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc. They are depicted as playful and friendly, where they have no problem swimming alongside the protagonists. That said, they actively avoid Akira and Shizuka, the dolphins being able to detect the awkward air around the two of them ([[spoiler:where Akira and Shizuka are partially avoiding each other due to the latter remembering how he confessed to her while she was delirious]]). Near the end of the arc, [[spoiler:when Akira and Shizuka manage to confess to each other for real, they manage to be saved by the dolphins from the zombies that cornered them on the beach]]. The group wonder if the dolphins did this intentionally, while Lambda Chop tells them about how there are heroic myths and stories about how they saved people from drowning or shark attacks, though note the dolphins view it as "playing" instead.
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* There's also another book called ''Dolphin Song'' which is the second book in ''Literature/TheWhiteGiraffe'' series. The main character, a girl called Martine -- who holds a special gift with animals -- falls overboard during a storm while on a school trip aboard a boat. Several other students also fall overboard, and they are all rescued by a pod of dolphins who remain friendly to them throughout.
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* There's also another book called ''Dolphin Song'' which is the second book in ''Literature/TheWhiteGiraffe'' the ''Literature/LegendOfTheAnimalHealer'' series. The main character, a girl called Martine -- who holds a special gift with animals -- falls overboard during a storm while on a school trip aboard a boat. Several other students also fall overboard, and they are all rescued by a pod of dolphins who remain friendly to them throughout.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': While the selkie Kona and the half-mermaid Tempest are swimming together in ''Tempest Rising'', they run into a pod of dolphins that prod Tempest with their noses and then spin through the water. When Tempest tries to imitate them, she keeps tumbling over them, which makes the dolphins laugh.
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* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': The "Winner!" win screen shows Plink riding a presumably-a-toy dolphin for reasons of cuteness.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'' has Phindoll, an energetic pink low-poly dolphin with a penchant for [[PungeonMaster trigonometry jokes]]. He helps ENA reach [[CrystalDragonJesus the Great Runas]] so she can make her wish, even changing the ritual required to reach him from a fight to staining some water red once he realizes that she's feeling stressed.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'' has Phindoll, an energetic pink low-poly dolphin with a penchant for [[PungeonMaster trigonometry jokes]]. He helps ENA reach [[CrystalDragonJesus the Great Runas]] so she can make her wish, even changing the ritual required to reach him from a fight to staining some water red once he realizes that she's feeling stressed.
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* Early in ''Film/UltramanTigaTheFinalOdyssey'' before the villains arrive, Daigo and Reina are shown bonding in a waterpark, where Reina in a post-kaiju world is a dolphin tamer and swims with her dolphin "pals" before a large audience.
* ''Film/{{Gorgeous}}'': As Buu lives near a fishing village, one of her regular "friends" is a bottlenose dolphin who regularly surfaces to play with her. Later she becomes acquainted with her new boyfriend, the wealthy tycoon Chan, whose mansion has an indoor pool containing domesticated dolphins, with Buu delightfully jumping in to play with them.
* ''Film/{{Gorgeous}}'': As Buu lives near a fishing village, one of her regular "friends" is a bottlenose dolphin who regularly surfaces to play with her. Later she becomes acquainted with her new boyfriend, the wealthy tycoon Chan, whose mansion has an indoor pool containing domesticated dolphins, with Buu delightfully jumping in to play with them.
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* Wild orcas, like other dolphins, do exhibit curiosity and even playfulness towards boats, with behaviors ranging from approaching to seemingly putting on a show of breaching and splashing to bowriding. Unfortunately, one trio of orcas in the waters off the Iberian peninsula seems to see boats as a threat and have taken to ramming and disabling them on sight. Or at least that's how some biologists see this; others surmise that these orcas are engaging in overblown play behavior, thus still technically playing this trope straight--the "playful" part at any rate.
* Dolphins have at times displayed what is known as "fad" behavior, where one or several individuals will exhibit or do something that serves no real purpose and entire pods will pick up on the trend. Like human fads, it usually gets old and fades away with time. This is particularly seen with wild bottlenose dolphins "tail-walking"[[note]] Something captive dolphins are commonly taught to do but nearly unheard in wild dolphins[[/note]] and one group of northern resident orcas "wearing" salmon on their heads or rostrums. The boat-ramming orcas mentioned above might also be guilty of this but the trend has yet to show any signs of dying down.
* Dolphins have at times displayed what is known as "fad" behavior, where one or several individuals will exhibit or do something that serves no real purpose and entire pods will pick up on the trend. Like human fads, it usually gets old and fades away with time. This is particularly seen with wild bottlenose dolphins "tail-walking"[[note]] Something captive dolphins are commonly taught to do but nearly unheard in wild dolphins[[/note]] and one group of northern resident orcas "wearing" salmon on their heads or rostrums. The boat-ramming orcas mentioned above might also be guilty of this but the trend has yet to show any signs of dying down.
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* Wild orcas, like other dolphins, do exhibit curiosity and even playfulness towards boats, with behaviors ranging from approaching to seemingly putting on a show of breaching and splashing to bowriding. Unfortunately, one trio group of orcas in the waters off the Iberian peninsula seems to see boats as a threat and have taken to ramming and disabling them on sight.sight, usually targeting and making off with the boat rudders. Or at least that's how some biologists see this; others surmise that these orcas are engaging in overblown play behavior, thus still technically playing this trope straight--the "playful" part at any rate.
* Dolphins have at times displayed what is known as "fad" behavior, where one or several individuals will exhibit or do something that serves no real purpose and entire pods will pick up on the trend. Like human fads, it usually gets old and fades away with time. This is particularly seen with wild bottlenose dolphins "tail-walking"[[note]] Something captive dolphins are commonly taught to do but nearly unheard in wild dolphins[[/note]] and one group of northern resident orcas "wearing" salmon on their heads or rostrums. Theboat-ramming rudder-stealing orcas mentioned above might also be guilty of this but the trend has yet to show any signs of dying down.
* Dolphins have at times displayed what is known as "fad" behavior, where one or several individuals will exhibit or do something that serves no real purpose and entire pods will pick up on the trend. Like human fads, it usually gets old and fades away with time. This is particularly seen with wild bottlenose dolphins "tail-walking"[[note]] Something captive dolphins are commonly taught to do but nearly unheard in wild dolphins[[/note]] and one group of northern resident orcas "wearing" salmon on their heads or rostrums. The
