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The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), alternatively known in Peru bufeo gris or bufeo negro, is a species of freshwater dolphin found in the rivers of the Amazon basin.The word tucuxi is derived from the Tupi language word tuchuchi-ana, [citation needed] and has now been adopted as the species' common name.
A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC. ... shrimp, crab, dolphin, and hippocamp. ...
The appetizers were served on "a Lazy Susan made of monkey pod wood and equipped with a little stove fired with charcoal briquettes." [10] Recipes for some of the pu pu items were later published in the Herald Tribune in 1960. [12] Always the showman, Trader Vic included a hibachi grill when presenting a pu pu platter at the table. [10]
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Young fisherman with dolphinfish from Santorini, Greece, c. 1600 BCE (Minoan civilization). The mahi-mahi (/ ˌ m ɑː h i ˈ m ɑː h i / MAH-hee-MAH-hee) [3] or common dolphinfish [2] (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide.
Dolphin fishing began at the Okinoshima site (now Tateyama) about 10,000 years ago in the early Jōmon period, [1]: 217 and large numbers of dolphin bones have been excavated from the Tanimukai shell mound (Minamibōsō) and Inahara shell mound . Dolphin bones with obsidian punctures have also been found in Inahara shell mound.
It's surf competition season in Australia, and one lucky surfer not only won her first world championship but got to do it with a pod of dolphins as her wingmen.
The origin of the name "dolphinfish" is recent, to avoid confusion with dolphins, as the traditional name of the fish was also "dolphin". Why the mammal and the fish were both called "dolphin" is uncertain, but theories include that dolphinfish communicate using high-pitched sounds similar to a dolphin, and they are about the size of a small ...