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    A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae...
    134 KB (14,947 words) - 13:22, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for River dolphin
    River dolphins are a polyphyletic group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water. They are an informal grouping...
    51 KB (5,977 words) - 22:00, 17 April 2024
  • research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech. As a child, she was inspired by a book called...
    8 KB (960 words) - 04:29, 17 April 2024
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    common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus)...
    107 KB (11,437 words) - 11:56, 29 April 2024
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    Baiji (redirect from Whitefin Dolphin)
    dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China. It is thought to be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans....
    57 KB (6,674 words) - 12:41, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Byford Dolphin
    Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally...
    19 KB (1,868 words) - 21:07, 19 May 2024
  • The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) is a research and educational centre dedicated to the understanding and conservation of cetaceans and...
    21 KB (3,044 words) - 00:20, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amazon river dolphin
    The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale endemic to South America...
    58 KB (7,134 words) - 05:12, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irrawaddy dolphin
    The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphin found in scattered subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries...
    58 KB (6,566 words) - 13:39, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ganges river dolphin
    The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is a species of freshwater dolphin classified in the family Platanistidae. It lives in the Ganges and...
    22 KB (2,328 words) - 14:31, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cetacean intelligence
    dolphins. In 2014, a study found for first time that the long-finned pilot whale has more neocortical neurons than any other mammal, including humans...
    48 KB (5,258 words) - 01:34, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Common bottlenose dolphin
    The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops...
    48 KB (4,843 words) - 22:01, 5 May 2024
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    nature of human consciousness. He later combined that work with his efforts to communicate with dolphins. He began studying how bottlenose dolphins vocalize...
    41 KB (4,796 words) - 22:17, 16 May 2024
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    from the dolphin too constricting. After several weeks, a concerted effort by the dolphin to imitate the instructor's speech was evident, and human-like sounds...
    52 KB (5,838 words) - 18:56, 11 May 2024
  • team, are training dolphins to communicate with humans at their remote island research facility. They teach Alpha ("Fa"), a dolphin they have raised in...
    14 KB (1,524 words) - 23:30, 29 December 2023
  • the property to the public, running it as the Institute for Delphinid Research until 1983. The Dolphin Research Center was founded in 1984 by Armando...
    11 KB (1,191 words) - 03:28, 15 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Military marine mammal
    bottlenose dolphins, seals, sea lions, and beluga whales. The United States and Soviet militaries have trained and employed oceanic dolphins for various...
    17 KB (1,877 words) - 07:03, 13 May 2024
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    Mahi-mahi (redirect from Dolphin fish)
    (not to be confused with Salminus brasiliensis, a freshwater fish) and dolphin, it is one of two members of the family Coryphaenidae, the other being...
    17 KB (1,763 words) - 16:31, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taiji dolphin drive hunt
    599329°N 135.946498°E / 33.599329; 135.946498 The Taiji dolphin drive hunt is based on driving dolphins and other small cetaceans into a small bay where they...
    44 KB (5,137 words) - 16:03, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hector's dolphin
    Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) is one of four dolphin species belonging to the genus Cephalorhynchus. Hector's dolphin is the only cetacean...
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