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	Common Dolphin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Common Dolphin is the name given to two, or occasionally one species of (Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) dolphin, making up the ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species) genus Delphinus.
		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.
		Common Dolphins were abudant in the western Mediterranean Sea until the 1960s but occurrences there have tailed off rapidly there.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/common_dolphin.htm (536 words)

	Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolphin (1446 words)

	Short-beaked Common Dolphin - Delphinus delphis
		The calves are 36 in long at birth.
		Sharks and killer whales are natural predators of short-beaked common dolphins, although short-beaked common dolphins are often victorious in a fight against a shark.
		The long-beaked common dolphin and Baird's dolphin are close relatives of the short-beaked common dolphin.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/cetacean/commondolph.html (566 words)

	Common Minke Whale - Dolphins And Whales Window
		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 long-beaked common dolphin is found more in coastal waters; the short-beaked common dolphin is found in offshore waters and is the species that occurs frequently in the eastern tropical Pacific.
		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.
	dolphins.jump-gate.com /whales/common_minke_whale.shtml (704 words)

	Dolphin Characteristics
		On average the common dolphin is 5.8-8 feet and weighs 155-245 pounds.
		The dolphin's flippers are long and thin and generally dark in color.
		The long-beaked common dolphin is more often found in coastal waters, whereas the short-beaked common dolphin is seen more frequently in offshore areas.
	www.mypages.iparenting.com /webs/aborabelly/belly7.html (508 words)

	ACS common dolphin Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		When looking at the profile of the two common dolphin species, the short-beaked common dolphin has a more rounded melon that meets the beak at a sharp angle, as compared to the long-beaked common dolphin that has a flatter melon that meets the beak at a more gradual angle.
		The short-beaked common dolphin is relatively heavier, and has a larger dorsal fin and flippers than the long-beaked common dolphin.
		STATUS 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 (838 words)

	Cetacea - Long-beaked Common dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Common dolphin is named from the Latin and Greek words for dolphin, referring to the fact that this was the species with which the Ancients were most familiar.
		Saddleback dolphin; White-Bellied Porpoise; Criss-Cross dolphin; Hourglass dolphin; Cape dolphin.
		Common dolphins range in size from 1.7m to 2.6m, and weigh between 70kg and 135kg.
	www.cetacea.org /new/species/lbcommon.php (529 words)

	Monterey Bay Whale Watch Marine Life - Dolphins and Porpoise
		Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, endemic to the North Pacific, are one of the most abundant cetaceans along the central and northern California coastline, often found in herds numbering over several hundred individuals.
		Risso's Dolphin is a relatively large (13') pelagic dolphin found worldwide in warm temperate and tropical seas.
		Common Dolphins are found worldwide, generally in warm water areas.
	www.montereybaywhalewatch.com /dolphins.htm (579 words)

	Common Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The long, narrow beak is sharply divided from the lower forehead by a deep groove.
		Common dolphins are common in temperate, subtropical and tropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
		Common dolphins are intelligent animals and have interests, fears, moods and emotions.
	www.coastalguide.to /commondolphin/main.html (624 words)

	Common dolphins
		Although the common dolphins are killed in tuna nets, the numbers are substantial.
		This species of dolphin was only given its latin name 'delphinus capensis' in 1994, when the short beaked dolphins were split up from them.
		The long beaked common dolphin has less contrast between the dark, white and yellow parts of its body.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /dolphininfo/page6.html (228 words)

	Whale Web: Common Dolphins
		Long beaked common dolphins now have the genus species Delphinus capensis while short beaked common dolphins are known by the genus species Delphinus delphis.
		Common dolphins are very social animals, and travel together in large groups, or pods.
		Common dolphins can reach a length of 2.5 m, though most tend to be slightly smaller than that, with males being a bit larger than females.
	www.whale-web.com /dolphins/common.html (532 words)

	Common Dolphins
		One of the features of common dolphins include a dark band around their eyes extending to the end of their long narrow beaks.
		common dolphins also have fl backs, white undersides, and prominent gray and yellowish-brown stripes on their sides resembling an elaborate criss-cross or hourglass pattern.
		Common dolphins are one of the smallest dolphins, with a body length of 1.7-2.4m and weighing 70-110kg.
	www.dolphinswrld1.netfirms.com /CommonDolphins.htm (265 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).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/delphin.htm (1133 words)

	Short-beaked common dolphin - Delphinus delphis: More Information - ARKive
		The short-beaked common dolphin is the commonest dolphin species (1), but exact numbers are unknown (3).
		These fast-swimming dolphins are highly active (1), often leaping clear of the water (breaching), and slapping their flippers on the water surface (lobtailing) (3).
		A UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species, the common dolphin is protected in UK waters by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Orders, 1985; it is illegal to intentionally kill, injure, or harass any cetacean (whale or dolphin) species in UK waters (2).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/mammals/Delphinus_delphis/more_info.html (659 words)

	Monterey Bay dolphins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dolphins and porpoises are toothed whales, and a number of rarer toothed whales are shown on my Monterey Bay rare cetaceans page.
		The widespread Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis was recently split with two species in the eastern tropical Pacific (Heyning and Perrin 1994, Rosel et al.
		There is a 1.09% sequence divergence in the mitochondrial DNA tested between the two species of common dolphins off California which is 50 times greater than the divergence between Short-beaked Common Dolphins in California and those halfway around the world in the Black Sea (Rosel et al.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/MtyBaydolphins.html (2601 words)

	Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dolphins are social animals, living in so called schools of up to a dozen animals.
		Dolphins trained to perform in front of an audience have become a favorite attracton at places such as SeaWorld.
		Dolphins do not have acute eyesight, but have good hearing and a keen sense of smell.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/do/Dolphin.htm (897 words)

	ACS Soundings -- The ACS Monterey Bay Grants and Common Dolphin
		We were discussing common dolphins and research that was being done to determine if the two types (short-beaked and long-beaked) were really two separate species.
		Short-beaked common dolphin in the by-catch appeared to have different prey species that were important compared to the other three dolphin groups.
		This would indicate that short-beaked common dolphin in the process of stranding switch from their "normal" prey species and forage on nearshore prey similar to long-beaked common dolphin.
	www.starrsites.com /acsmb/Soundings/ACSGrants0006.htm (617 words)

	Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BICREF's Best Dolphin and Whale Sighting Report Award for the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2005 was presented last Saturday to the Skipper John Dietz who led the crew...
		Swimmers from the Ballina Dolphins Swimming Club attended their first B and C Graded Gala of the year in Castlebar on 23rd October where they achieved great...
		Burdwan, Nov. 2: A Gangetic dolphin, which had got trapped in a canal in Burdwan, died after it was released in the Bhagirathi.
	www.wikiverse.org /dolphin (731 words)

	Animals Common Dolphin Common Dolphin
		The Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis is a slender streamlined dolphin with a moderately long beak, tall dorsal fin number in the thousands the common dolphin travels at a fast and.
		Known as the Bottlenosed Dolphin, it is the largest of the beaked dolphins.
		The Common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, aka Saddleback dolphin, Saddleback porpoise, Criss-cross dolphin, White is also known as a Common dolphin and is nearly identical except.
	wild-animals.ciide.com /wild-animalsTO2236.html (652 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		Because of the recent discovery that common dolphins in the central Pacific represent two species (rather than only one, as was commonly thought), much of the biological information available for dolphins of the genus Delphinus cannot be reliably applied to one or the other species.
		Besides having longer beaks than short-beaked common dolphins, long-beaked common dolphins are slightly longer and more slender, and have a somewhat more flat appearance to the melon, which rises from the rostrum at a relatively low angle.
		All common dolphins are characterized by an hourglass pattern on the side, forming a V below the dorsal fin.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/555654 (894 words)

	Nature's Spirit Photography: Dolphins And Porpoises
		Dolphins and porpoises belong to the cetacean order of mammals.
		Among the toothed whales there are over thirty-five species of oceanic dolphins and porpoises that widely vary in size, shape, and coloration.
		Dolphins and porpoises are social animals, living in groups that range in size from a few individuals to several thousand.
	www.natures-spirit.com /pages/stock/dp.html (227 words)

	mm12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As changes in the diet of common dolphins have been observed with both season and gender, it is reasonable to expect these differences to be reflected in the fatty acid composition of the blubber.
		This project proposes to examine interspecific and intraspecific differences in fatty acid composition of blubber of the common dolphin with respect to age, gender and season.
		Blubber samples from a total of 150 dolphins are available taken from incidentally caught animals off the California Coast and which are archived at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NMFS), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and The Marine Mammal Center.
	wfscnet.tamu.edu /reports/AR00/mm12.htm (403 words)

	Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Common dolphin prey species in the eastern Ionian Sea (http://www.accobams.org/download/articles/population/Agazzi_etal_2004.pdf)
	dolphinpoolcleaner.com (949 words)

	SCIENCE SUMMARY: 26 OCT - NOV 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We were able to obtain hours of recordings from both the short-beaked and long-beaked common dolphins, with incredible high frequency recordings.
		Unfortunately the majority of dusky dolphins were sighted in waters that were too shallow for the array, and once we got the array in the water, they hushed up and hurried off.
		Outside of an unidentified dolphin school or two (most likely our friendly common dolphins), the only other dolphin species recorded were a few bottlenosed dolphin on the first and last day.
	swfsc.ucsd.edu /prd/star/cruise2000/mac1103.htm (657 words)

	Long-beaked Common Dolphin Skull Replica
		Long-beaked Common Dolphin Skull - The Long-beaked dolphin is native to various tropical and subtropical coasts throughout the world's oceans.
		Common dolphins feed on schooling fish such as anchovies, sardines and pilchards.
		This species is very similar to the Short-beaked Common dolphin and was once considered to be the same species.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /long-beaked-common-dolphin.html (75 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Delphinus capensis
		39): "The Long-beaked Common Dolphin occurs in continental near-shore tropical and warm temperate waters of at least the Pacific, Atlantic, and western Indian oceans (including Madagascar).
		Although its known distribution is more restricted than that of the Short-beaked Common Dolphin, and its aggregate abundance probably much lower, the long-beaked species is not known to face any major immediate threats to its survival.
		There is growing concern about the large numbers of Long-beaked Common Dolphins killed off Peru and used for human food or shark bait (K. Van Waerebeek, pers.
	www.redlist.org /search/details.php?species=6337 (331 words)

	ipedia.com: Dolphin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They vary in size from 1.2 metres and 40 kg (Heaviside's Dolphin), up to 9.5 metres and 10 tonnes (the Killer Whale).
		In many species, the jaws are elongate, forming a distinct beak and for some species like the Bottlenose, has a curved mouth that looks like a fixed smile.
		Doplhin/Human interaction is also employed in a curative sense at places where dolphins work with autistic or otherwise disabled children.
	www.ipedia.com /dolphin.html (817 words)

	Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Photography is used to document the geographic variation in the morphology of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific.
		It is one of the tools used to differentiate among stocks of spotted and spinner dolphins, and between closely related species of common dolphins.
		Farley, T. Geographic variation in dorsal fin color of short-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus delphis, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
	swfsc.ucsd.edu /PRD/PROGRAMS/DolphinStock/photography.html (435 words)

	Divestart :: Where and When to find your favorite critter!
		Due to depth restraints, the reef is largely unexplored with divers tending to concentrate on a small stretch that is 4 km (2.5 miles long) and 200m (650ft) wide.
		There is also a variety of reef fish, ribbon tail skates, moray eels, spotted eagle rays, manta rays and large schools of pelagic fish.
		It is unfequent but sightings of bottlenose dolphins is possible on Protea Banks all year round.
	www.divestart.com /divestart_index20.html (654 words)

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