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	White-beaked Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White-beaked Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) is a marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (dolphins) in the suborder of the Odontoceti, or toothed whales.
		The White-beaked Dolphin is endemic to the North Atlantic Ocean and is found in a band stretching across the ocean from Cape Cod, the mouth of the St.
		The White-beaked Dolphin is not as well adapted to Arctic conditions as the beluga or narwhal The dolphin may easily be mis-identified as the Atlantic White-sided Dolphin although the White-beaked is commonly found further north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White-beaked_Dolphin (290 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 (1414 words)

	White Beaked Dolphin
		White beaked dolphins are very large and have a short, rounded beak.
		The lip of the dolphin and the beak is usually white, at least this is usually the case in the Western Atlantic.
		White beaked dolphins are usually found in the cool, Arctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and are more often present in the coastal areas than out at sea.
	www.livingforeshore.org /dolphins/dolphins_012.htm (544 words)

	White Beaked Dolphin - Dolphins And Whales Window
		White or grey markings are distinctive on the sides and flanks of the animal: an elongated white blaze originating above the flipper and extending along the flanks and over the back behind the dorsal fin; and grey white blazes on the thorax and the flanks, which may be flecked with fl streaks.
		The lip and beak are white, with as large grey beak blaze and grey area at the tip of the lower jaw.
		The white-beaked dolphin is a fast and powerful swimmer, and may bow-ride, especially in front of large, fast moving vessels.
	dolphins.jump-gate.com /differnt_dolphins/white_beaked..shtml (674 words)

	Dolphin article - Dolphin dolphin (disambiguation) Dusky Dolphin Scientific classification - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dolphins are actually very intelligent creatures who tried in vain to warn humans of the impending destruction of Earth.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Dolphin (868 words)

	Dusky Dolphin - Lagenorhynchus obscurus
		The beak is short and rounded and is not well-defined.
		Dusky dolphins are extremely intelligent and are considered to be one of the most acrobatic of the dolphins, sometimes doing backflips in the air after meals.
		The dusky dolphin is in the same genus as the white-beaked dolphin, Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin, hourglass dolphin and Peale's dolphin.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/cetacean/duskydolphin.html (386 words)

	White-beaked dolphin
		The beak is rather short and the flippers are broad.
		The adult white-beaked dolphin is 2.5-2.7 m long and weighs about 180 kg (maximum: 3 m and 275 kg (Peet et al, 1992)).
		They are probably the most common dolphin in Icelandic waters and in the North Sea.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/lag-albi.htm (511 words)

	Dolphin Feature - The White Beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The White Beaked Dolphin inhabits the area from the coast of New York and Main across the Atlantic to the coast of Europe to the Harent Sea.
		The White Beaked dolphin's coloring ranges from a dark gray on the back with ligher gray and white along the belly, throat, and down to the beak.
		The White Beaked dolphin has such a powerful need for socialization it has been known to "join" pods of other species of dolphins such as the Bottlenose and the Atlantic White Sided dolphins.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4895/29965 (267 words)

	Marine Dolphins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The upper surface of their bodies are fl, but there is a large white patch on the belly between the flippers and a long narrow streak of white extending from this to the flukes.
		This dolphin is fluvial and inhabits coastal regions near mouths of rivers and advances into rivers such as the Amazon river and the Orinoco river.
		White beaked dolphins are such fast swimmers that they create rooster tail wakes.
	www.wcug.wwu.edu /~narf/dolp/d6.shtml (306 words)

	Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They vary in size from 4 ft (1.2 m) and 88 lb (40 kg) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 31 ft (9.5 m) and 10 tonnes (the Orca).
		Dolphins are social animals, living in pods (aka schools) of up to a dozen animals.
		Dolphins are predators, chasing their prey at high speed.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dolphin (1248 words)

	White-beaked
		This dolphin spends a lot of its time offshore, but during the summer months can be seen from our coastline.
		They have a short white beak or nose (hence the name) and distinctive white marking down their sides, which reach up onto their backs, behind the dorsal fin.
		The two species of dolphins (bottlenose and white-beaked) might be expected to compete for food and the present project will look at distribution patterns and interactions between the two species.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~nhi904/adp/whitebea.htm (173 words)

	THE HUSAVIK WHALE CENTRE IN ICELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dolphins generally feed on various small fish, such as mackerel and herring, or squid.
		Occasionally, large groups of white-beaked dolphins can be seen in the fjords and bays, but they usually travel in smaller groups of 5 - 10 animals.
		This is the most common dolphin being spotted on whale watching trips around Iceland.
	www.icewhale.is /?Id=558 (133 words)

	CMS: Lagenorhynchus albirostris, White-beaked dolphin
		Belly and beak are normally white, but the beak may be ashy grey or even darker, which may appear as if a white beak was missing (Kinze 2002).
		Published estimates indicate a population of at least several thousand white-beaked dolphins in portions of the north-western Atlantic: shoreward of the 200 m contour between St. Anthony, Newfoundland, and Nain, Labrador (Alling and Whitehead, 1987) and in coastal and offshore waters east of Newfoundland and south-east of Labrador.
		Sightings of white-beaked dolphins are common around Newfoundland during the winter and spring and fishermen along the Labrador coast claim that they approach the coast in late June and remain until October (Ailing and Whitehead, 1987).
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/l_albirostris/l_albirostris.htm (1625 words)

	Cambridge Public Schools- Morse School: White-beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dolphins are warmblooded which means their body temperature always stays about the same, no matter what temperature might be around them, and they have lungs.
		Attitude: Dolphins are not only one of the most playful creatures in the world, but are also one of the most intelligent ones too.
		In addition, to using their sight and hearing, dolphins are able to sense other creatures nearby because they have a special organ in their forehead called the "melon".
	www.cps.cambridgema.gov /element/Morse/Educational/Whale_Project/Megan.html (371 words)

	Cetacean Species - White Beaked Dolphin
		The white-beaked dolphin is a large and very robust dolphin, with a short rounded beak and a tall, falcate dorsal fin.
		White-beaked dolphins are found in the cool and sub-arctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
		The white-beaked dolphin has been reported in large schools, up to several hundred individuals in the eastern Atlantic, but mostly occurs in smaller schools in the western Atlantic.
	www.crru.org.uk /education/factfiles/whitebeaked.htm (557 words)

	WWF - Whale watching in the Arctic - The Atlantic White Beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The white-beaked dolphin has distinctive flish dorsal and lateral surfaces and its belly is white.
		There are white or grey markings on the sides and flanks, a large grey beak blaze and a grey area at the tip of the lower jaw, which extends back for about a third of the length of the mouth.
		White-beaked dolphins have between 22 and 26 teeth in both the upper and lower jaws.
	ngo.grida.no /wwfap/whalewatching/whales_beaked.shtml (462 words)

	Cetacea - White-Beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This dolphin is robust, with a thick beak and large, strongly curved dorsal.
		The basic culour is fl, with white or light grey patches on the sides extending both fore and aft of the dorsal fin, on both the cape and the flanks.
		The undersides are also white, as is the beak, but it can be mottled brown or grey or very dark.
	www.cetacea.org /new/species/wbeaked.php (291 words)

	Dolphins more information
		It is during this period that a fatal interaction often occurs between the dolphins and commercial pair trawlers fishing primarily for sea bass.
		The White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) is most frequently recorded around the coast of Scotland and North East England, and its distribution is thought to have remained relatively unchanged since the 1920s.
		Two resident populations of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) are known to exist in British waters: one in Cardigan Bay, Wales, the other in the Moray Firth, Scotland.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/online-ex/art-themes/20thcentury/more/dolphins_more_info.htm (489 words)

	White-beaked dolphin
		This dolphin has a large, robust body with a short and broad snout (about 5-8 cm with full-grown animals), pointed fins (up to 19% of the total length of a full-grown dolphin) and a large, bent dorsal fin (up to 15% of the total length of a full-grown dolphin) halfway down the back.
		The snout may not be completely white, but may also be white with fl or grey (especially seen with congeners in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean).
		This dolphin is often confused with the white-sided dolphin, but an important difference is the aforementioned light spot on the back (from backside to dorsal fin) of the White-beaked dolphin.
	www.coastalguide.to /white-beakeddolphin/main.html (499 words)

	Atlantic white-sided dolphin
		The Atlantic white-sided dolphin is fl on the back, with dark grey flanks and a long white oval blaze below the dorsal fin, extending towards the anal area.
		The Atlantic white-sided dolphin can be found in the temperate and sub-polar regions of the North Atlantic, from West Greenland, Iceland and the Barents Sea south to Cape Cod in the west and Ireland and the North Sea in the East.
		In the eastern North Atlantic the Atlantic white-sided dolphin population size is estimated to be about 40% of the size of the white-beaked dolphin population (relative estimate based on sightings.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/lag-acut.htm (589 words)

	Marine Mammals - White-Beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The white-beaked dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris – although not a truly "arctic" mammal – inhabits the pelagic zone in offshore waters of the eastern Arctic.
		However, this is imprecise since the colour of the beak can vary from pale yellow to dark grey to mottled brown.
		White-beaked dolphins have a thick layer of blubber to support their life in cold arctic waters, where they feed largely on squid, hermit crabs, and fish.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpl/organisms/mammals/Marine/wbdolphin.htm (127 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Rescue mission as dolphin is stranded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She said dolphins suffered from “land sickness” in a similar way humans could be seasick.
		Dolphins breathe out of water so that is not the problem, but the danger is, if he gets dry, his skin can crack, which can be very damaging.
		The dolphin is lying on the shore about 200 yards east of the causeway at Crammond Island and police and members of the public were helping in the rescue effort by fetching water from the sea.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=751932002 (761 words)

	Discovering Whales - The Dolphin
		The Dolphin is the largest and most diverse family of cetaceans.
		Most forms of this family have functional teeth in both jaws, a melon with a distinct beak, smooth sloping foreheads, a single notch in the middle of their flukes and a dorsal fin.
		Of the 26 species of dolphin 13 tend to have long, well-defined beaks and streamlined slightly robust bodies.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/discover/DOLPHINS (123 words)

	Dolphin Care UK - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dolphins around our coast are being killed at an alarming rate, increasingly due to human negligence.
		Dolphins all around our coast are being killed at an alarming rate, and it is this website's mission to help stop the needless killing of these beautiful creatures.
		We aim to achieve better conservation of dolphins in the seas around Britain by involving the public in the monitoring of populations and the threats they face, and by the regular production of material to educate, inform and lobby for better environmental protection.
	www.dolphincareuk.org (496 words)

	Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit - Crovie White-beaked dolphin Stranding
		At 7 pm on Tuesday 4 December, we responded to a call from a local villager who had stumbled upon, what she described as, a small, baby dolphin on the beach between Crovie and Gardenstown in Banffshire.
		Later that day he reported the dolphin was found in good physical condition and there was very little to see grossly.
		However, the lungs of the young dolphin were over-inflated and had some fluid present suggesting that the animal most probably live stranded.
	www.crru.org.uk /rescue/news/crovie.htm (297 words)

	White-beaked dolphin Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In general, those that live in the east of their range tend to have white beaks whilst those of the west Atlantic have darker beaks.
		This is a large species of dolphin, with a very rounded body, and a tall dorsal fin in the centre of the back.
		Their beaks are short and thick, and are either all white, or white and fl/grey.
	wdcs.org /dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/399969D2E8D0BF25802569D00046CE64 (318 words)

	ecovolunteer nature travel: help in whale & dolphin research in scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This project is dedicated to the understanding, welfare, conservation and protection of cetaceans in Scottish waters through scientific investigation, education, and the provision of professional veterinary assistance to sick, stranded and injured individuals.
		Primary concentration is of an individually-identified population of bottlenose dolphins which live here, and a sub-population of minke whales, which frequent particular sites along this coastline during the summer and autumnal months.
		Primary concentration is of an individually-identified population of bottlenose dolphins, which spend a large proportion of the year in the rich coastal waters of the southern firth, and a sub-population of minke whales, which frequent particular sites along this coastline during the summer and autumnal months.
	www.ecovolunteer.org /scotland_dolphins.html (366 words)

	ICELAND WORLDWIDE - White-beaked Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The White-beaked dolphin is a familiar sight to all Icelandic Fishermen.
		White beaks will bow ride but not for extended periods of time.
		The playful nature of dolphins is often evident with breaching and tail slapping.
	www.iww.is /pages/alife/mammals/hnidir.html (73 words)

	White-beaked dolphin - Lagenorhynchus albirostris: More Information - ARKive
		Despite the common and Latin names (albirostris means 'white beak' (1)), the short, stocky beak of the white-beaked dolphin is not always white.
		It may be fl and white, grey and white, completely white or even fl in colour in certain parts of the range (3).
		This large dolphin has a rotund body, with a high dorsal fin placed in the centre of the back, behind which there is a characteristic greyish white patch that allows this species to be easily identified (3).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/mammals/Lagenorhynchus_albirostris/more_info.html (793 words)

	Divestart :: Where and When to find your favorite critter!
		Beaked whales are the least known of all whales in the world.
		Not as common as fl tips and white tips, but there is a chance.
		Rissos are often seen in combination with either groups of spinner dolphin and/or pilot whales.
	www.divestart.com /divestart_index196.html (984 words)

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