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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.
In 2015 we went to the Niue Island in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. The island is small, you can literally drive around it in 30 minutes. But what is unique is that just around 50 m from the shore the ocean goes very deep - up to 300 m. Therefore you can see whales and dolphins a lot - right from the window of you motel, or from a restaurant deck. We went to swim with dolphins and it was a remarkable experience. The picture is from my small Canon camera - therefore not extremely high quality.
I photographed the dolphin at an Asian Lights display.
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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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Capturing a dolphin in mid-jump was very challenging, but they gave me the opportunity when they kept racing alongside the boat playfully. I set the zoom lens to 100mm (as little as possible) to increase the field of view. I then tried timing a series of bursts, anticipating when they would jump. A little luck and a little skill combined to give me this awesome image. The spray off the boat, visible as white dots in the lower right, only added to the feeling of the image. Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa
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
Seen from the shore at Richardson Beach Park, Kalanianaole Ave, Hilo, Island of Hawaii [Big Island], Hawaii.
Info: A group of dolphins is called a pod. A pod usually is formed of around 12 dolphins, and it is the usual social group of dolphins. > www.dolphins-world.com/what-is-a-group-of-dolphins-called/
The dolphin gull is native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands, I found it in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina.
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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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.
We saw several large pods of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay last week. Composite of dolphins from the bay and the dock area.
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...
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.
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Whilst working the Sea Safari boat out of Teignmouth this morning we chanced upon a small pod of Short Beaked Common Dolphins. On seeing us they started slow swimming and spy hoping. Spy hoping is when the dolphin comes out of the water and holds itself briefly to see whats around. Luckily i had my camera to hand to bag a few profile shots. The scratches on her flank are from the teeth of other dolphins.
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".