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Porpoising Dolphin ~ Gulf of Mexico ~ Clearwater Beach, Florida
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 250, f/8.0, 44mm, 1/2000s
I photographed the dolphin at an Asian Lights display.
The background was created by using various brushes in Photoshop.
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Long-beaked common dolphins are gregarious and are often seen ‘porpoising' at the water surface, breaching and bow-riding for extended periods of time. They are also highly vocal and like the short-beaked common dolphin, can be heard whistling to each other when they are above the surface of the water. They typically travel in large social groups numbering between 10 and 50 dolphins.
Macro Mondays - Glass, August 24th 2020
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from a recent trip to mull we came across a pod of common dolphins and a minke whale
unfortunateley no whale pictures
Two Common Dolphins, of the Cornish Coast at Padstow
The common dolphin is the name given to two species (and possibly a third) of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomists only recognised one species in this genus, the common dolphin Delphinus delphis. Modern cetologists usually recognise two species — the short-beaked common dolphin, which retains the systematic name Delphinus delphis, and the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis.
The common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination despite its name; that distinction belongs to the bottlenose dolphin due to its widespread use in marine parks and its appearance in the television series Flipper.However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
The cruise ship terminal at Puerta Maya in Cozumel, Mexico, features an extension known as a "dolphin" to its pier. This structure is designed to facilitate the mooring of ships and enhance the terminal's capacity.
In dophin jumping skill I think this one scored close to a 10! We had watched a sperm whale catching its breath after a deep dive for 45 minutes then found a dolphin school. Seen from a Whale Watch boat off Kaikoura, a small town on the East coast in the north of NZ's South Island.
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For me, this was the grand finale to my day trip out to our Channel Islands. I had at least one missed opportunity of breeching dolphins on the boat trip TO the islands. And the dolphins were around that late afternoon fish feeding frenzy although looking for them meant missing the pelican plunge dives. This pair flew by just in time to give me one last chance.
The bottlenose dolphin weighs an average of 300 kg (660 lb), but can range from 150 and 650 kg (330 and 1,430 lb). It can reach a length of just over 4 m (13 ft). Its color varies considerably, is usually dark gray on the back and lighter gray on the flanks, but it can be bluish-grey, brownish-grey, or even nearly black, and is often darker on the back from the rostrum to behind the dorsal fin. This is called countershading and is a form of camouflage. Older dolphins sometimes have a few spots.
Bottlenose dolphins can live for more than 40 years. Females typically live 5–10 years longer than males, with some females exceeding 60 years. This extreme age is rare and less than 2% of all Bottlenose dolphins will live longer than 60 years. Bottlenose dolphins can jump to a height of 6 metres (20 feet) in the air.
This image was taken on a Dolphin and Whale Watching boat called "Flipper" from the port of Tazacorte on La Palma, in the Canary Islands
The dolphin gull is native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands, I found it in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina.
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bottlenose dolphin
tursiope
tursiops troncatus
summer, taken from boat
estate, scattata dalla barca
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On the way out to photograph whooping cranes we saw this dolphin out in the bay. This group didin't seem to be very playful, and we only saw one surface this once.
Had an amazing experience encountering a superpod of thousands of Northern Right Whale Dolphins and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins grouped together in Monterey Bay, CA.
The dolphin breached the water with a corkscrew twist to give additional height. It reached about 5m clear of the water, just avoiding a belly flop on landing! All this with the Ceredigion coastline in the background. A fabulous encounter...
Dolphin rock at sunrise on the Sunshine Coast QLD. I have been chasing this shot for a while now where a nice sunrise aligns with high tide. Was finally successful last week. Instagram @glensinclair_photography
Ganges river dolphin - Platanista gangetica, photographed at the downstream side of Koshi Barrage, Nepal. The area of bubbles on the service infromt and above the Dolphin are the footstep of a younger Dolphin, possibly the calf of this one.
Metal sculpture of three leaping dolphins on Brighton Beach which are part of the Sculptures by the Sea exhbition.
Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were indeed a common sight on our 9 day cruise around the Hebrides. On a number of occasions we spotted them distantly and they headed straight for our boat in order to bow-ride. For some reason they seem to enjoy swimming on the pressure wave in front of boats, even though our boat only travelled at a stately 8 knots. They were very difficult to photograph well when they were bow-riding as you were looking straight down on them, but it was a great experience as they were so close I could hear them making a wonderful clicking noise like you hear in Flipper films. Although Flipper was a Bottlenose Dolphin so presumably had a different sound.
Paraphrased from wikipedia:
The Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis) is a species of bottlenose dolphin found in parts of Victoria, Australia. It was recognised as a species only in 2011. By size, the Burrunan dolphin is between the other two species of bottlenose dolphin There are only two resident populations of the Burrunan dolphin; one in Port Phillip and these ones from the Gippsland Lakes. Their combined population has been estimated as about 150 dolphins (100 in Port Phillip and 50 in Gippsland).
The dolphin's common name, Burrunan, is an Aboriginal name in the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung and Taungurung languages, meaning "large sea fish of the porpoise kind".
Dolphin wave jumping at North Stradbroke island. It looks to me like an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus); any dolphin identification experts out there? Queensland, Australia
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