'This Is So Cool!' Backflipping Dolphin Delights Whale Watchers

A backflipping dolphin put on an epic show for passengers on a whale watching tour in Monterey Bay earlier this month.

Footage posted to TikTok by Discovery Whale Watch on March 7 shows the dolphin delighting passengers as it leaps from the water and flips in midair as a humpback whale lurks nearby.

According to Discovery Whale Watch’s post, the acrobatic animal was a Pacific white-sided dolphin, which are native to California and known to be “extremely playful.” Credit: Discovery Whale Watch via Storyful

Video transcript

- Oh, my god. This is so cool.

[LAUGHTER]

Yippee.

- Woo!

- Yippee.

Oh, my god. This is so cool.

[LAUGHTER]

Yippee.

- Woo!

- Yippee.

Oh, my god. This is so cool.

[LAUGHTER]

Yippee.

- Woo!

- Yippee.