A popular performer at aquariums, this dolphin is named for the shape of its snout
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Vancouver Aquarium bucks national trend by keeping whales and ...  Feb 12, 2014 ... It would just slip off her nose and slowly drift and fall down to the ... The facility still keeps two Pacific white-sided dolphins named Helen ... It's not that everything about the Vancouver Aquarium is bad, she ... to the Vancouver Aquarium helped shape lifelong attitudes toward animals. ..... MOST POPULAR...
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Pacific white-sided dolphins - Dolphins | Shedd Aquarium  Learn fun facts about the dolphins that live here at Shedd Aquarium! ... Each dolphin here has its own shape that functions as a name tag. Sagu knows a trainer...
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The Fantastical Vision for the Original SeaWorld - The Atlantic  Mar 21, 2014 ... And San Diego would have its answer to Disneyland, which had ... There were aquariums and even early marine parks in a few .... When dolphin training began in the 1950s, the studio's foremost talent, a bottle-nose named Flippy, ... pool for performing dolphinsand in time, the concept spread to the West...
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Dolphins - National Wildlife Federation  Ten Reasons to flip for dolphins - March 2012 Ranger Rick Magazine. ... So dolphins and people have lots of things in common, including being ... Maybe you've seen them at marine parks or aquariums, performing amazing flips and leaps. The most ... Dolphins perform their gymnastics for a number of different reasons.
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Cetacea - Wikipedia  Cetacea (/ste/), (from Latin cetus "whale" and Greek ketos "huge-fish") are a widely ... Dolphins are able to make very tight turns while swimming at high speeds. ... commonly kept in captivity and are even sometimes trained to perform tricks and tasks, ... They have a streamlined shape, and their forelimbs are flippers.
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Mahi-Mahi / Dolphins vs. real Dolphins - Straight Dope Message Board  One claimed that it is related to the dolphin, but is not a mammal. ... I've often heard that you should call the mammal a porpoise since the fish is called a dolphin. This is not ... So did the Spanish double-name, or were they confused? ... Mahi mahi is a pretty common fish served in local restaurants by me.
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Kelp Forest at the Monterey Bay Aquarium  You'll get a diver's-eye view of sardines, leopard sharks, wolf-eels and a host of other ... There are more than 100 species of rockfish and they come in many different ... and large, protruding canine teeth that can pry hard-shelled animals from rocks. After powerful jaws and sharp teeth crush the prey, modified throat bones (a...
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The Fabulous Dolphin - JStor  1 Eunice Burr Stebbins, The dolphin in the literature and art of Greece and ... P. 6: "Some of these antique tales may have ... ful, stories of the dolphin as a sea rescuer is told by Herodotus in Book 1 of the Histories. The poet Arion ... the rescue of Arion. The dolphins ... entitled Dolphins, the myth and the mammal. Following...
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National Aquarium mourns death of 31-year-old dolphin - Collections  Sep 27, 2010 ... The gentle bottlenose dolphin that was the mother of the first dolphin ... Shiloh made history as mother to first calf born at Baltimore attraction ... the first dolphin calf to be born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore in 1992 ... that Shiloh  one of the first six dolphins to be displayed in the new ... April 27, 2004.
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Sea horse  ... in its curious horselike head carried at right angles to the general axis of the body. The head is surmounted by a pentagonal star-shaped "coronet," and the snout is tubular with the small oblique mouth at its tip, like that of its relative the pipefish. ... Its neck, body, and tail are covered with rings of bony plates, 12 rings on the...
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Tucuxi Dolphin - Whaleopedia  It does not possess the long, narrow beak and paddle-shaped flippers associated with river dolphins, but looks more like the much larger bottlenose dolphin.
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Portal:Sharks/Selected articles - Wikipedia  It is a stocky shark, most notable for its long, white-tipped, rounded fins. ... Like other thresher sharks, nearly half its total length consists of the elongated .... a threat display in which it frequently changes direction and dips its pectoral fins. ..... shark, family Sphyrnidae, so named because of the distinctive shape of the head,...
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How Are Dolphins and Porpoises Different? | Wonderopolis  Dolphins usually have beak-like, pointed snouts, while porpoises have blunt, ... Porpoises have triangular dorsal fins, like a shark. ... The teeth of the two animals offer an easy way to tell them apart. Porpoise teeth are flat and rectangular. ... One last difference to note is that dolphins produce sounds that humans can hear.
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Morphological variation in head shape of pipefishes and seahorses ...  May 31, 2011 ... with its elongate tubular snout and tiny, toothless jaws, is highly specialized for ... and to different body postures (in line with the head ver- sus vertical with a ... inverse relation between relative snout length and intra- specific variation and ..... almost right angle (dorsorostral shift of LM8 and to a lesser degree...
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Bottlenose dolphin - Wikipedia  Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of .... The real, functional nose is the blowhole on top of its head; the nasal septum is visible when the blowhole is open. ..... He states dolphins and porpoises feed on different types of fish, thus food competition is an unlikely cause of...
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Piscis Austrinus - Constellations of Words  Mormyrid or Elephant-nose fish are depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs dating ... its mouth open drinking (or engorging) the water pouring from the jar of Aquarius. ... The chief god of the ancient Philistines, represented as half-man and half-fish ... to 'conch', it was called a cochlea because it resembles the spiral of a conch.
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Dolphin vs. Porpoise - SoftSchools  Dolphin and porpoise are types of marine mammals that belong to the group of ... Dolphins have beak-like, pointed nose and large mouth filled with cone-shaped teeth. ... Dolphins have hooked (wave-like) dorsal fin, while porpoises have triangular ... Unlike them, porpoises produce clicks of high frequency that human ear...
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J! Archive - Show #1175, aired 1989-10-13  It's a ring engraved with a seal, not with a baby swan ... This fish swims upright & uses its prehensile tail to anchor itself to coral or algae...
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Common Bottlenose Dolphin - Animals - National Geographic  Learn all you wanted to know about bottlenose dolphins with pictures, videos, ... Join now to share your images, take part in assignments, and get helpful ... that target is often a bottom-dwelling fish, though they also eat shrimp and squid. ... However, dolphins are threatened by commercial fishing for other species, like tuna,...
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Anima1s Part 3 Flashcards | Quizlet  ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $400: Charo may know this fish shares its name with a kitchen ... (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): This animal seen here is famous for its gait.
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Bottlenose dolphin - Wikipedia  Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of ... Numerous investigations of bottlenose dolphin intelligence have been ... Scientists were long aware that Tursiops dolphins might consist of more than .... When the clicking sounds hit an object in the water, like a fish or rock, they...