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  Dolphin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dolphins are certain aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises.
The dolphin family is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene.
Dolphins are also famous for their willingness to occassionally approach humans and interact with them in the water.
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 Dolphin - Thagodz Wiki
Dolphins are considered to be amongst the most intelligent of animals and their often friendly appearance and seemingly playful attitude have made them popular in human culture.
Unlike most mammals, dolphins do not have hair, but they are born with a few hairs around the tip of their rostrum which they lose after some time, in some cases even before they are born.
Dolphins will also kill porpoises for reasons which are not fully understood, as porpoises generally do not share the same fish diet as dolphins and are therefore not competitors for food supplies.
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 Dolphin (disambiguation)
Dolphin (or more properly, dolphinfish) is also used to describe a species of fish, Coryphaena hippurus, which is unrelated to the mammal.
Dolphin was the code name for the Nintendo Gamecube before it was released.
Dauphin (French for dolphin) was a title adopted by many French kings and aristocrats, received originally from Humbert II.
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 dolphin watching, watching, fire watching, clock-watching, dolphin watching in virginia beach, dolphin watching areas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
dolphins are aquatic mammals that the are closely related watching to whales and porpoises.
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 Dolphin Intelligence
Learning to identify scores of dolphins by their dorsal fin, Smolker and her team of scientists were able to conduct close and consistent studies that revealed the dolphin to be even more intelligent than we'd previously suspected.
But more than just a document on dolphins, this book is a touchingly personal look at the life of a scientist, at the rigors and sacrifices but also the wonders and joys of unending days in the field.
Cetaceans include whales, porpoises and dolphins and while all are broadly considered intelligent, dolphins have generated the most attention as their capabilities appear to be of a different order than that of their relatives.
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 Dolphin (disambiguation) at AllExperts
*The Dolphin class of submarines of the Israeli Navy.
*In a translation from Russian, "Dolphin" may occur as a translation of the Russian name "Delfin", which means "dolphin", and is also a Russian commando frogmen unit and the name of a submarine.
*A fixed man-made structure which is not connected to shore and is used to berth vessels against (a berthing dolphin) or mooring vessels to (a mooring dolphin).
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 Dolphin Summary
Dolphins are distinguished from their close relatives, the porpoises, by the presence of a beak.
Dolphins communicate by means of echolocation, ranging from a series of clicks to ultrasonic sounds, which may also be used to stun its prey.
Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises, famous for their intelligence, apparent compassion, and joy.
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 dolphin resources, dolphins, dolphin
Dolphins are often regarded as one of Earth's most intelligent species, though it is hard to say just how intelligent dolphins are as straightforward comparisons of species' relative intelligence are complicated by differences in sensory apparatus, response modes, and nature of cognition.
Dolphins are one of the few animals other than humans known to mate for reasons other than reproduction.
Dolphins are common in Greek mythology and there are many coins from the time that feature a man or boy riding on the back of a dolphin.
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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.
Dolphins trained to perform in front of an audience have become a favorite attracton at places such as SeaWorld.
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 More Info on dolphins - - dolphin - - dophins
Dolphins are widely believed to be amongst the most intelligent of all animals.
Dolphins are social animals, living in pods (also called "schools") of up to a dozen animals.
Dolphins do not have acute eyesight nor do they appear to have a good sense of smell, although their sense of hearing is far above our own.
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 Common dolphin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Despite its name the common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination - that distinction belongs to the Bottlenose Dolphin, largely due to the television series Flipper.
The common dolphin is widely distributed in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical waters throughout the world in a band roughly spanning 40 degrees south to 50 degrees north.
The dolphins have been seen to mix with other cetaceans such as other dolphins in the Yellowfin tuna grounds of the eastern Pacific and also schools of Pilot Whales.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dolphin class is a non-nuclear (SSK) type of submarine developed and constructed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW), Germany for the Israeli Navy.
It is based on the export-only German 209 class submarines, but heavily modified and enlarged and is thus not seen as a member of the 209 family.
[1] The Dolphin boats are considered to be among the most sophisticated and capable conventional submarines in the world.
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Dolphins are widely believed to be amongst the most intelligent of all animals, though it is hard to say just how intelligent dolphins are as straightforward comparisons of species' relative intelligence are complicated by differences in sensory apparatus, response modes, and nature of cognition.
Dolphins also seem to enjoy riding waves and are frequently seen 'surfing' coastal swells and the bow waves of boats.
Capable of speech, these enhanced dolphins thrived in the seas of Pern and were instrumental in helping the colonists to sanctuary during the first years of Threadfall.
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 Dolphin Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Learning to identify scores of dolphins by their dorsal fin, Smolker dolphin intelligence and her team of scientists were able to conduct close dolphin intelligence and consistent studies that revealed the dolphin to be even more intelligent than we'd previously suspected.
But more than just a document on dolphins, this book is a touchingly personal look at the life of a scientist, at the rigors dolphin intelligence and sacrifices but also the wonders dolphin intelligence and joys of unending days in the field.
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 Dolphin - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
After study at the Dolphins Plus research center in Key Largo, Florida, fantasy author Ken Grimwood wrote dolphins into his 1995 novel Into the Deep, including entire chapters written from the viewpoint of his dolphin characters.
Dolphins are also heavily featured in the Uplift series of novels by David Brin.
In these science fiction tales, dolphins have been "Uplifted" to human level intelligence, and have their own language (Trinary) and pre-sentience mythology (the Whale Dream).
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 Dolphin Hotel
Miami Dolphins, professional football team and one of the four teams in the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) of the National Football League (NFL).
For most of their history, the Dolphins were coached by Don Shula, the winningest head coach in professional football history.
The fifth, ''Dolphin'' (#874), a 40-foot motorboat, served in a noncommissioned status in the Sixth Naval District during World War I. The sixth, ''Dolphin'' (SS-169), the lead ship of her class of submarine, provided reconnaissance during World War II.
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 Genus Grampus or Risso's dolphin
Human impacts: Risso's dolphin are taken in small numbers throughout their range accidentally as well as intentionally.
The common, bottlenose, striped, and Risso's dolphin are all to be seen both in Eilat, the most common Red Sea vacation spot (perhaps because they'll let you swim with them there), and all along Israel's western coast.
In the Azores the Risso's Dolphin are relatively common and can be seen with frequency near the shore, during most of the year.
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 dolphins superpage
Dolphins Football Club of Port Harcourt have adopted the U.J Esuene stadium,Calabar as home for their CAF Confederation Cup matches.
A pod of dolphins possibly 1000-strong put on a display yesterday which would have made the acrobats of Cirque du Soleil envious.
Dolphins coach Cam Cameron moved closer toward finalizing his offensive staff Monday with the hiring of Terry Shea as the team's new quarterbacks coach.
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 The dolphin resource
Dolphin Offshore and Naftogaz Consortium have been awarded a $32.196 million project in Mumbai offshore by ONGC.
According to a release issued by Dolphin to the BSE today, the company is the leader of the consortium.
The BMA’s Deputy Chair of the Junior Doctor’s Committee, Dr Tom Dolphin comments on the Government’s announcement that there will be up to 23,000 junior doctor training posts in the UK next year.
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 dolphin - OneLook Dictionary Search
Dolphin : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
Dolphin, dolphin : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
Phrases that include dolphin: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, dolphin kick, atlantic bottlenose dolphin, pacific bottlenose dolphin, more...
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 Dolphin Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Killer Whales and some related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even though they are
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