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The story was parodied in the Saturday Night Live sketch "The Dolphin Who Learned to Speak". [6] The story is also mentioned in the Rick and Morty episode "Final DeSmithation". Margaret Howe Lovatt was portrayed by Shiri Appleby in the "Drugs" episode of the TV series Drunk History, with an inebriated Duncan Trussell telling the story.
The result is The Jolly Mon - an original tale where music and enchantment, pirates and trickery, friendship and the loyalty of a very special dolphin, create a timeless story of adventure. Dramatic paintings by Lambert Davis reflect the artist's continuing love of the sun, the surf, and the sea.
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).
The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. [1] Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables , it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century.
A film based on Winter's story, titled Dolphin Tale, was released September 23, 2011. [16] Winter portrayed herself in the film. [ 17 ] The film depicted Winter's rescue and the pioneering of her prosthetic tail.
Scholarship recognizes that French author and conteuse Henriette-Julie de Murat borrowed the theme to write her literary work Le Turbot. [4] [5] de Murat's tale is also considered a literary variant of the tale type ATU 675, [6] [7] but, according to Melissa Hoffman, she drew the focus away from the male protagonist of the type to develop fairy Turbodine as the real protagonist of the story.
The film follows former-dolphin-trainer-turned-activist Ric O'Barry's quest to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.In the 1960s, O'Barry helped capture and train the five wild dolphins who shared the role of "Flipper" in the hit television series of the same name.
The story of Pelorus Jack is (with some changes) recounted in the 1960's Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery anthology comic series. [ 21 ] Singer/songwriter Andrea Prodan tells the tale of the dolphin in the song "Pelorus Jack" on his 1996 all-vocal record Viva Voce .