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Playfulness

Dolphins are generally playful animals. It is a fact that they spend most of their time playing. But how far do dolphins go with their playfulness? To answer this question , let's illustrate this with a few examples:
There are stories about dolphins saving drowning people from the sea. These people had nearly drowned, but dolphins brought them to shore just in time. These stories are so beautiful that they resemble fairytales. Extensive research however has shown that these are only pure coincidences. The reason is mainly because of the dolphin's playful nature. More than once researchers have observed dolphins bringing a lot of things to shore, like rubbish and mattresses. This means that it is possible that a dolphin will bring a human being to shore instead of an object.
Dolphins are often observed swimming along with boats. This is not because they like the people on board the ship especially, but just because they enjoy the current of the boat. This has everything to do with the playfulness of the dolphins.
Dolphins that stay in a dolphinarium usually enjoy their stay. There are dolphins totally crazy about balls, hoolhoops and the trainers themselves are also treated as a toy. Of all the toys that exist, humans are perhaps the most entertaining to the dolphins.
It is a pity that the attraction of humans on dolphins is nowhere as beautiful and as great as often thought. Humans are not a natural love for dolphins. Dolphins receive fish, attention and people play all sorts of games with the dolphins. This is a bit of a pity, but dolphins are 'just' animals, as in the case of monkeys. The so called smiling is also not what it seems. Even if a dolphin is angry, it will keep on smiling. It is because of the way its face is structured, but we as humans often think that the animal is happy. That is our way of communicating and often, we tend to misunderstand the feelings of dolphins.