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The Australian snubfin dolphin is unusual among recently described mammals in that a population is accessible for scientific study. Nonetheless, the existence of snubfin dolphins in the waters of northern Australia had only become known to western scientists in 1948, when a skull was collected at Melville Bay (Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory).
The snubfin dolphins (Orcaella) contain two of the 35 species of oceanic dolphins that make up the Cetacean family of Delphinidae. [5] The phylogenetic status of Orcaella has long been confused. Although the snubfin dolphins share similar external features with the Monodontidae (narwhal), [ 2 ] a genetic study conducted by Arnason and ...
Long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis DD (ssp. capensis - long-beaked common dolphin NE, ssp. tropicalis - Indo-Pacific common dolphin NE) Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis LC (ssp. delphis - short-beaked common dolphin Mediterranean Subpopulation EN, ssp. ponticus - Black Sea common dolphin VU) Pygmy killer whale, Feresa ...
A total of 65 Irrawaddy dolphins has been found dead along the coast of Trat Province in the past three years. [68] The local fishing industry is blamed for the deaths of the dolphins. [69] In January 2013, over a dozen dead Irrawaddy dolphins were found on the coast of Thailand. These dolphins were said to be dead because of a lack of oxygen.
Alexander, of Beaufort Dolphin Adventures, launched the business two years ago to serve clientele interested in experiencing Beaufort’s wild side like its salt marshes and rivers. The biggest ...
La Plata dolphins are exclusively marine organisms, however, they are grouped with river dolphins due to the fact that they reside in the La Plata River which is a salt-water estuary. With their white or sometimes pale brown coloration, fishermen tend to call them "the white ghost", as they also tend to stray away from any human interaction.
Scientists found that members of the new species are smaller than their offshore common bottlenose counterparts, eat different fish and have spines adapted to navigating the tight spaces of rivers ...
Researchers at the University of Zurich estimated that the 16-million-year-old fossil was more than 11 feet long and is said to be the longest freshwater dolphin ever found.