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| | Spinner Dolphin Behavior, pictures, Why do Spinner Dolphins Spin? |
 | | In Hawaii, the spotted dolphins can leap higher (we've had them jump high enough to be at eye level to us in a vessel's tuna tower!) than a spinner, but except for the Clymene dolphin, no other dolphins spin (naturally anyhow). |
 | | A spinning dolphin may be signaling to the others: "here I am here is where I am going..." The effect of many dolphins spinning and leaping at once, defines what scientists call the envelope of the school that is, its size, direction, and speed of travel. |
 | | Dolphins that appear to be closely bonded may swim in synchrony, twisting, turning and swimming in perfect harmony together. |
| www.wilddolphin.org /behavior.html (1290 words) |
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