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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.
Dusky Dolphin, Kaikoura, New Zealand
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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.
Getting close to one of the world’s most intelligent and playful creatures. A large group of Red Sea spinner dolphins
framed from the surface while breathing oxygen. They live in closely knit social groups called “pods” and are one of the world’s most intelligent animals.
Dolphins hunt for fish collectively in a pod using various tactics including “coralling” where the fish are chased into shallow water where they are easier to catch. They can also use echolocation, a clicking sound they omit which produces a return echo when it hits any object, to determine the location of nearby fish shoals.
These playful mammals are a common sight in the Red Sea, and Marsa Alam offers excellent opportunities to encounter them. Marsa Alam has two of the most important dolphin habitats in the Red Sea and the world – Samadai and Sataya reefs, both providing a home to large families of spinner dolphins.
Shot with a Canon EOS 700D at Shaab Satayah Marsa Alam.
Macro Mondays - Glass, August 24th 2020
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What happens when a dolphin meets Photoshop polar coordinates. You can make it jump itself in a curious kind of way. It takes a few steps to make these so I created an action which will let me unleash more on my friends :) Just let me know if you don't like them and I will desist!
Dusky Dolphins in New Zealand.
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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.
A friend took us for a boat ride while in Florida and these beauties followed along for a while.
After the encounter, I discovered that somehow while on the boat my camera got switched to a black and white setting. Thankfully, the other settings were quick enough to catch some of the action.
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.
Porvenir, Chile. Another bird that I was anxious to see when in Patagonia. These gulls, with their bright orange bills and legs, are transfixing. Thanks for looking and any comments or feedback.
got this little beauty this morning.after last nights sunset i had a hinch that we might get a good sunrise.it didnt let me down.
In Cardiff Bay and the adjacent Cardiff docks complex, there are many structures that remain from when Cardiff was the world's premier coal exporting port.
One of the most recognisable - and most photographed (well, by me, anyway!) - are the mooring 'dolphins'.
Their purpose was to allow ships waiting to enter the docks to tie up to them to stop the ships toppling over when the tide retreated and the ships rested on the tidal mud flats.
Despite being built about 120 years ago, there are quite a few of these structures still remaining.
In this image, I've applied a slight sepia tone and vignette to represent how a photograph of a 'dolphin' may have looked when taken in the early Edwardian period - although the water gauge board in metres rather undermines my efforts!
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bottlenose dolphin
tursiope
tursiops troncatus
summer, taken from boat
estate, scattata dalla barca
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Sunset waterscape and dophin swimming in Tilligerry Creek at Lemon Tree Passage in Port Stephens, NSW, Australia.
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...
First day out sailing this season and we were met by a pod of dolphins, we can now recognise a few of the group as locals as they have distinctive markings so it was wonderful to meet up with them today all looking healthy after a long and stormy winter here in North Wales. A youngster was spotted with Mother but I didn't manage to photograph them as it was a very misty morning to begin. The pod appeared delighted to have us back in the water as we left the harbour entrance and put sails up they raced over to follow us and played around the bow as we sailed at 6-8 knots upwind with the yacht bouncing through the gentle swell.
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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