Originally Posted by interracialtoons

So it's known as a dolphin thru-out the world but it's not a "dolphin" because it didn't get it's own american television series in the 60's called Flipper.
So since the TV show made all these mainland hoales fall in love with the "dolphin" nothing else that was a dolphin before can still be called that because nobody in Hawaii wants you to think you are eating Flipper.