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  2. Blowhole (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The single blowhole of a bottlenose dolphin just before going under again The V-shaped double blowhole of a gray whale. In cetology, the study of whales and other cetaceans, a blowhole is the hole (or spiracle) at the top of the head through which the animal breathes air.

  3. Bottlenose dolphin - Wikipedia

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    The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops.They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. [3] Molecular studies show the genus contains three species: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus).

  4. Melon (cetacean) - Wikipedia

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    The melon is structurally part of the nasal apparatus and comprises most of the mass tissue between the blowhole and the tip of the snout. The function of the melon is not completely understood, but scientists believe it is a bioacoustic component, providing a means of focusing sounds used in echolocation and creating a similarity between characteristics of its tissue and the surrounding water ...

  5. Dolphin - Wikipedia

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    A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).

  6. Ancient Freshwater Dolphin Species Just Found in the Peruvian ...

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    The Independent reported that the ancient dolphin was named Pebanista yacuruna and was discovered by an international research team on the Napo River. Three weeks into the search, an undergraduate ...

  7. Microplastics found in dolphin breath – study

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    For the study published in the Plos One journal, the researchers held a collection surface over or just above each dolphin’s blowhole as it exhaled in order to collect the samples.

  8. Bottlenose Dolphins Put on Quite a Show for Whale Watchers ...

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    Dolphins are one of my favorite ocean animals and they're quite remarkable ones. After writing about pets and animals over the last couple of years, I've learned a lot of cool random facts that ...

  9. Common bottlenose dolphin - Wikipedia

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    Common bottlenose dolphins have a grey coloring, a short beak, a single blowhole, and a hooked dorsal fin. [13] The bottlenose is between 2 and 4 m (6.6 and 13.1 ft) long, and weigh between 150 and 650 kg (330 and 1,430 lb). [ 14 ]