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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).
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with a global population of about six million. [3] Despite this fact and its vernacular name, the common dolphin is not thought of as the archetypal dolphin, with that distinction belonging to the bottlenose dolphin due to its popular appearances in aquaria and the media.
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).
[7] [10] Dolphins have a short and well-defined snout that looks like an old-fashioned gin bottle, which is the source for their common name. [15] The skeleton. Like all whales and dolphins, though, the snout is not a true nose; the nose instead evolved into the blowhole on the top of their heads. Their necks are more flexible than other ...
Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins, found in shallow water from Florida to New York, ... “This research kind of highlights the importance of going out to look at every dead dolphin, as gross as it ...
The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) [3] is a species of humpback dolphin inhabiting coastal waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans. [4] This species is often referred to as the Chinese white dolphin in mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan as a common name.
As the Dolphins look ahead to Sunday’s home game against the Jets (1 p.m., CBS), several areas that were damaging in Monday’s loss must be addressed. ... “I don’t like to use excuses, but ...
It's a practice known as "setting on dolphins," as tuna and dolphins tend to move in schools side-by-side in fishing areas like the eastern Pacific Ocean. Often, the dolphins are entangled in nets ...