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  Common Dolphin | Cetacean Fact Sheet | American Cetacean Society
Common dolphins are colorful, with a complex crisscross or hourglass color pattern on the side; the long-beaked common dolphin being more muted in color.
The short-beaked common dolphin is relatively heavier, and has a larger dorsal fin and flippers than the long-beaked common dolphin.
Traditionally, hundreds of thousands of common dolphins have been taken incidentally, along with spinner and pantropical spotted dolphins, in purse seine nets used during tuna fishing operations in the eastern tropical Pacific although these numbers may be improving.
www.acsonline.org /factpack/common.htm   (781 words)

  
 Factsheets: Common Dolphin
The Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis is a slender streamlined dolphin with a moderately long beak, tall dorsal fin and large tapering flippers.
Common Dolphins appear to favour continental shelf and pelagic waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans within the broad zones of the temperate and tropical latitudes.
The principal prey of the Common Dolphin are squid and small school fish such as sardines, pilchards and anchovies.
www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/common_dolphin.htm   (454 words)

  
 Common dolphin
The flippers are tapering and the dorsal fin is sickle-shaped and erect.
The common dolphin is occassionally seen in the North Sea (Peet et al, 1992).
In 1990, 700 dolphins of the Northern ETP stock were taken (0.7%), 4,100 of the Central ETP stock (0.7%) and 300 of the Southern ETP stock (0.014%) (National Research Council, 1992).
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Common dolphins are a sleek, medium sized dolphin, and has a long slender beak and tall dorsal fin.
Common dolphins are fast and energetic swimmers and often bow-ride on the wake of boats and even large whales.
Common dolphins may be found in association with striped dolphins and occasionally with bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales.
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 Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis at MarineBio.org
Common dolphins are typically 1.7-2.6 m in length and weigh between 70-135 kg.
Common dolphins, Delphinus delphus, are found in the Atlantic from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to northern South America and in the Pacific from Victoria, British Columbia, down to the Equator.
Despite their active and social behavior in the wild, common dolphins are shy, easily agitated, and prone to illness when kept in captivity.
marinebio.org /species.asp?id=32   (808 words)

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