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Timothy Wei, professor and acting dean of Rensselaer's School of Engineering, videotaped two bottlenose dolphins, Primo and Puka, as they swam through a section of water populated with hundreds of thousands of tiny air bubbles. Computer software and force measurement tools developed for aerospace were then used to study the particle-image ...
The Chilean dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia), also known as the Black dolphin, is one of four dolphins in the genus Cephalorhynchus. The dolphin is found only off the coast of Chile ; it is commonly referred to in the country as tonina .
The Navy gets some of its dolphins from the Gulf of Mexico. Military dolphins were used by the U.S. Navy during the First and Second Gulf Wars, [11] and their use dates back to the Vietnam War. [12] About 75 dolphins were in the program circa 2007, [13] and around 70 dolphins and 30 sea lions were reported to be in the program in 2019. [12]
A drawing of the offshore bottlenose dolphin (top) and the new coastal species (bottom). From Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network on Facebook.
A pod of dolphins was spotted catching some serious air last week off the coast of San Diego, with footage of the aquatic aerobics already racking up millions of views on social media.
Striped dolphin A striped dolphin in full flight Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Genus: Stenella Species: S. coeruleoalba Binomial name Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen ...
As one of the ocean’s apex predators, orcas are known to incorporate their large size and speed into their hunting strategies, said Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a marine biologist and co-founder of ...
The study found that Black Sea bottlenose dolphin populations live in groups of 2-10 individuals that do not separate based on distinct barriers from one another, rather than by more closely related individuals, such as a mother and her calves, and stress the importance of close-knit social structures in the Black Sea dolphins. [2] Studies of ...