Dolphins seem to be able to drown pretty easily. Even if the're given a 1 block air gap above water, they don't come up for air. As a result, they die.
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[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
GoldenHelmet
Re-resolving as a duplicate of MCPE-37229 where we are tracking this issue.
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Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket has not been updated recently (~1 year+) so is being closed as Cannot Reproduce. If you feel this is still a valid issue then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines.
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