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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Dolphin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dolphins are certain aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises.
Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are descendants of land-living mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order.
The dolphin brain is large and has a highly structured cortex, which often is referred to in discussions about their high intelligence.
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Chinese White Dolphins are found near coastlines, and usually near the mouth of the Pearl River.The Pearl River near Hong Kong provides the estuarine water which is comfortable for them.
Chinese White Dolphins are quite sociable creatures and usually live in small groups of 3 to 4.
Since Chinese White Dolphins are territorial animals and rarely stray far away from their habitat, the water pollution in Hong Kong has a high impact on them.
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 Dolphin
Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises.
Most dolphins have acute eyesight both in and out of the water and their sense of hearing is superior to that of humans.
Though they have a small ear opening on each side of their head it is believed hearing underwater is also if not exclusively done with the lower jaw which conducts the vibrations to the middle ear via a fat filled cavity in the lower jaw bone.
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 Bambooweb: Chinese River Dolphin
The dolphins are described during the Han Dynasty in a biological encyclopedia, Erya (《爾雅》).
In 1978, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Freshwater Dolphin Research Centre (淡水海豚研究中心) as a branch of the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology (武汉水生生物研究所).
Qiqi was discovered by a fisherman in Dongting Lake, and later became the sole resident of Baiji Dolphin Aquarium (白鱀豚水族馆) beside Eastern Lake (东湖).
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 The Ultimate Dolphin Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They vary in size from 1.2 metres and 40 kg (Heaviside's Dolphin), up to 9.5 metres and 10 tonnes (the Orca).
There has been a report of dolphins protecting swimmers against a shark by swimming circles around the swimmers.
Dolphins are social animals, living in so called schools of up to a dozen animals.
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 chinese river dolphin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CETACEA: Lipotes vexillifer (Baiji or Chinese River Dolphin)
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 Dolphin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Dolphin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
An American National Football League (NFL) team is named the Miami Dolphins.
Their logo depicts an aqua-colored bottlenose dolphin wearing an American football helmet and jumping in front of a coral-colored sunburst.
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