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Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is an American former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.In the 1960s, she took part in a NASA-funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech.
A whale louse is a crustacean of the family Cyamidae.Despite the name, it is not a true louse (which are insects), but rather is related to the skeleton shrimp, most species of which are found in shallower waters.
Two unusual and very rare hybrid dolphins, known as wolphins, are kept at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii, which is a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. Also, two common/bottlenose hybrids reside in captivity: one at Discovery Cove and the other at SeaWorld San Diego .
The calf was nursed and was very playful. Only months after birth, it was the size of a one-year-old bottlenose dolphin. [6] All three calves were three-quarters bottlenose dolphin and one-quarter false killer whale. [7] Kekaimalu died on July 8, 2024 at the age of 39. [8] Kawili Kai remains in captivity in Sea Life Park. [9]
Gray's or Hawaiian spinner dolphin (S. l. longirostris), from the central Pacific Ocean around Hawaii but represents a mixture of broadly similar subtypes found worldwide. Dwarf spinner dolphin (S. l. roseiventris), first found in the Gulf of Thailand. The species, though, displays greater variety than these subspecies might indicate.
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The white-beaked dolphin is a robust species of dolphin with a short beak. Adults can reach 2.3 to 3.1 m (7 ft 7 in to 10 ft 2 in) long and weigh 180 to 354 kg (397 to 780 lb). Calves are 1.1 to 1.2 m (3 ft 7 in to 3 ft 11 in) long at birth and probably weigh about 40 kg (88 lb). [4]