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First Discription
A gentleman by the name of Otho Fabricius published the first description of these species in from a specimen in Greenland, calling it Delphinus tursio. -
Dolphins Taken
estimated 2700 individuals were captured for live display, of which between 1,595 and 1,633 were taken from United States waters and 580 from Japanese waters. -
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Bottlenose Dolphin
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Two Species Found
Scientists in California concluded that there were two species — the long-beaked and short-beaked. This analysis was essentially confirmed by a more in-depth g. This study also suggested that a third species (D. tropicalis, common name usually Arabian common dolphin), characterized by an extremely long and thin beak and found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, might be distinguished from the long-beaked species. -
Dolphins Whistle
Scientists discovered the dolphins' namelike whistles. -
Baby Dolphins
In the Enoshima Aquarium in Japan a child was born to a bottlenose dolpin and a Risso's dolphin. -
dolphin mimicry
In the 1980s, a female from the local population was kept at a local dolphinarium for three weeks, and the scientist suggests she copied the tail-walking behavior from other dolphins. Two other wild adult female dolphins have now copied it from her. -
Baby Killer Whale
a female bottlenose gave birth to a child fathered by a false killer whale in Kamagawa Sea World in Japan -
Killer Whale
A third population of killer whales in the northeast Pacific was discovered, when a humpback whale researcher observed them in open water. -
Giant Dolphin- That Ate Dinosaurs
Thalattoarchon saurophagis meaning lizard-eating ruler of the sea was at least 28 feet long and dolphins at them 300 -
Trird Species
Research revealed a third species, the Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis). They inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide.
