Dolphins and humans both benefit from a fishing collaboration. Hear about it on urban legends and stranger truths. A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally wild dolphins. Accounts of people and dolphins working together to hunt fish go back millennia, from the time of the Roman Empire near what is now southern France to 19th century Queensland, Australia. But while historians and storytellers have recounted the human point of view, it's been impossible to confirm how the dolphins have benefited or if they're being taken advantage of