| Seen in | Trailer 1 (early coastal shot, dolphins jumping offshore) |
|---|---|
| Real Florida habitat | Bays, estuaries and nearshore Atlantic/Gulf waters around the entire Florida coast |
| In-game region | Open water off Vice City and the Leonida Keys |
| Status | Officially shown |
One of the very first wildlife moments in GTA 6's Trailer 1 is a pod of bottlenose dolphins breaking the surface just offshore. Fauna analyses of the official footage — the GTAForums breakdown covered by Game Rant — identified the common bottlenose dolphin with high confidence, and marine life keeps recurring across Rockstar's official material, which pitches the waters around the Keys as both beautiful and dangerous.
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are year-round Florida residents, common in bays, intracoastal waterways and just beyond the surf line on both coasts. They're intelligent, social hunters — Florida pods famously use "mud-ring feeding," beating a circle of silt around a school of fish and snapping them out of the air as they jump clear. Boaters in the Keys see them daily, which makes them ideal ambient scenery for a game built on Florida boat culture.
Dolphins aren't new to GTA — GTA 5's peyote plants even let players briefly become one — but there they were sparse ocean set dressing. GTA 6's trailer puts them front and center in the establishing shots of Leonida, hinting at RDR2-level ambient ecology extended underwater. With swimming, diving and boating around the Leonida Keys shown throughout Trailer 2, dolphins should be regular company on the water; our GTA 6 map guide covers how much of that ocean is playable space.
Related
Sources
- https://www.rockstargames.com/VI
- https://gamerant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-every-animal-confirmed-explained-gta6/
- https://www.gtabase.com/gta-6/animals/
Updated 2026-07-15