As we moved further into the sound, the resident bottlenose dolphin pod came into view. |
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Animals like the false killer whale and bottlenose dolphin show how much variety is possible by purely natural means. |
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I realized that the bottlenose whale in the Tropics was not the southern bottlenose whale. |
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The young northern bottlenose whale died aboard a rescue barge that was taking her back to sea. |
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The WDCS reports that Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are usually captured using speedboats and a seine net. |
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So the ultimate would be to put this on a sperm whale or a bottlenose whale or something like that. |
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And captive bottlenose dolphins have shown themselves to be skilled at replicating computer-generated sounds. |
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The already rippling surface was broken by a bottlenose dolphin, another thing that soothed her. |
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The big grey animals with sickle-shaped dorsal fins and prominent beaks are bottlenose dolphins. |
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Results of an autopsy on the bottlenose whale, which didn't survive a last-ditch rescue operation, were released today. |
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Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are among the best-known to the public, from appearances in films and dolphinariums. |
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The group includes bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, pilot whales, Pacific striped dolphins, and many more. |
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They have a pronounced bulbous melon that slopes smoothly into a long tube-like beak similar to that of a bottlenose dolphin. |
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The area is famous for wild bottlenose dolphins that, after years of being fed by local fishermen, swim to shore to interact with humans. |
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Spills, expelled material and an increase in shipping traffic are other factors that could potentially harm bottlenose whales. |
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Such coalitions have been described in the African lion, as well as in the bottlenose dolphin, the same species as the movie star Flipper. |
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The bottlenose dolphin is classified as Tursiops truncatus and the common dolphin as Delphinus delphis. |
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One hundred and thirty at risk northern bottlenose whale inhabit the deepest part of the Gully year round. |
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In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds. |
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The Second Conference of the Parties added harbour porpoises, bottlenose, common, risso's, white-beaked and white-sided dolphins, and the long-finned pilot whale. |
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The research was carried out among the 130-strong bottlenose dolphin colony living in the Moray Firth on the east coast of Scotland by a team from Aberdeen University. |
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In another animal experiment, a bottlenose dolphin was trained to press one lever when it heard a low-frequency tone and another lever when it heard a high-frequency tone. |
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The oldest Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin to be born and raised in captivity, 35-year-old Dolly was last seen mating with Domino in September last year. |
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Gannon began to study how bottlenose dolphin diets differ in different habitats and found that the marine mammals gorge on croakers inside estuaries. |
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We went on the rides, and then we were in a room, and learned about bottlenose dolphin anatomy, physiology, natural history, dolphin husbandry, and animal training. |
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Wildlife Connection is one of several outfitters that run boat trips out into the bay where tourists can watch humpbacks breach and bottlenose dolphins frolic in the waves. |
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Candidates include the water vole, highland wildcat, fox, bottlenose dolphin, red squirrel and soprano pipistrelle bat. |
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The northern bottlenose whale generally frequents the cold and deep waters of the North Atlantic. |
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Sperm whale dives can last an hour or more, but another open ocean species, the bottlenose whale, is known to dive for up to two hours at a time. |
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The chairman of Jaza, Kazutoshi Arai, confirmed to the Guardian that Jaza had the first pick of bottlenose dolphins during September. |
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Arai said Jaza had also asked Taiji fishermen not to separate bottlenose dolphin mothers from their calves. |
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Since the August 2014 agreement, 751 dolphins have been killed, with 41 bottlenose dolphins captured. |
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The population of northern bottlenose whales was thought to have declined throughout the North Atlantic. |
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The main species of concern are northern bottlenose, blue, and North Atlantic right whales. |
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If possible, sightings of northern bottlenose, blue, or North Atlantic right whales should also be reported. |
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There has not been a documented ship strike in the Gully and the effects on northern bottlenose whales are unknown. |
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A resident population of northern bottlenose whales is found in the deep canyon area. |
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Only one northern bottlenose whale entangled in fishing gear has been observed in the Gully. |
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It is an important habitat for the endangered Scotian Shelf population of the northern bottlenose whale. |
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And a misplaced family of northern bottlenose whales is just one of the mysteries of this deep-sea ravine. |
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The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported. |
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They study the small population of resident northern bottlenose whales from aboard their research sailboat Balaena. |
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Increasing conservation interest and dedicated research on northern bottlenose whales. |
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans keeps a close eye on the bottlenose whales. |
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One individual was observed playing with a bottlenose dolphin in Hawaiian waters. |
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The most common species are the bottlenose dolphin and the harbour porpoise. |
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Atlantic grey seals from Liverpool Bay occasionally venture into the estuary along with bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise. |
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The northern bottlenose whale also lives in the Scotian Shelf Waters area, in particular, the Gully. |
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The MPA protects the diverse habitats of a large submarine canyon and its related biological communities, including an endangered population of northern bottlenose whales. |
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More than 10 bottlenose dolphins were seen by our appropriately named reader Stephen Wales who sent us these pictures of them. |
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A group of bottlenose dolphins worked up quite an appetite hunting in Scotland's Moray Firth. |
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A DESPERATE bid to save Bobby the bottlenose whale began yesterday after he swam into the shallow waters of the Clyde. |
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They also record northern bottlenose whale vocalizations along with ambient sounds, including the vocalizations of other whales and noise from seismic surveys and ships. |
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The 21ft northern bottlenose whale, nicknamed Gilbert, is thought to have drowned after it got tangled in fishing nets. |
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It was Wilma, an 18ft northern bottlenose whale, now sadly departed, who took a wrong turn and ended up in the Thames. |
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It is home to Pacific and Black Sea bottlenose dolphins and northern fur seals. |
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The Gully is home for many fascinating and mysterious marine animals such as deep-diving northern bottlenose whales, glowing lanternfish and cold-water corals. |
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The common bottlenose dolphin is found in riverine and estuarine areas, bays and channels, and shallow marine waters from the outer coasts of the mainland and barrier islands to the continental slope. |
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The project focuses on the conservation of the bottlenose dolphin, the harbour porpoise and the loggerhead turtle, for which monitoring and awareness raising schemes will be implemented. |
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The Gully is an important habitat for the endangered northern bottlenose whale and other endangered and threatened marine mammals have also been sighted there. |
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The department's own scientists say that there are down to 130 northern bottlenose whales left in the world and they are off Sable Island Gully right now. |
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Ltd. in New Zealand has taken the initiative to launch a new web site aimed at kids featuring Hector Protector® the bottlenose dolphin and his under-water friends. |
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It seems to make sense that this very flat head of the male bottlenose whale is used in these kinds of aggression when they are competing with each other. |
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The Pembrokeshire coast is home to common porpoises and bottlenose dolphins. |
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The name 'dolphin' is used casually as a synonym for bottlenose dolphin, the most common and familiar species of dolphin. |
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Orcas and bottlenose dolphins have also been known to drive their prey onto a beach to feed on it, a behaviour known as beach or strand feeding. |
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Hundreds if not thousands of bottlenose dolphins live in captivity across the world, though exact numbers are hard to determine. |
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As a result of this genetic variation, other distinct species currently considered to be populations of common bottlenose dolphin are possible. |
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The bottlenose dolphin has a single blowhole located on the dorsal surface of the head consisting of a hole and a muscular flap. |
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One type of feeding behavior seen in bottlenose dolphins is mud ring feeding. |
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Common bottlenose dolphins are probably attracted to fishing nets because they offer a concentrated food source. |
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Ceredigion is one of only two places in the United Kingdom with a permanent presence of bottlenose dolphins. |
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One of the hybrids has been bred back to a bottlenose dolphin, demonstrating such hybrids are fertile. |
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On one occasion, a male common dolphin managed to impregnate one of the female bottlenose dolphins in the exhibit, leading to four hybrid births. |
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They also participate in shows with bottlenose dolphin and pilot whale at Sea World. |
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Humpbacks are a friendly species that interact with other cetacean species such as bottlenose dolphins. |
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These common dolphins remained at SeaWorld with the bottlenose dolphin exhibit. |
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The northern bottlenose was hunted heavily by Norway and Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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On 20 January 2006, a northern bottlenose whale was spotted in Central London in the River Thames. |
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Norway stopped hunting the whale in 1973 but northern bottlenose whales are still killed in the Faroe Islands. |
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Faroese regulations only allow the killing of bottlenose whales which have beached themselves and cannot be driven out again. |
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In 2010, Greenpeace International added the barndoor skate, bottlenose skate, and maltese skate to its seafood red list. |
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Turtles and common bottlenose dolphins are also being killed by fishing nets. |
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In regards to wildlife, bottlenose dolphins and Florida manatees can be observed in the bay. |
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We've seen stranded sperm whales, pilot whales, beaked whales, and bottlenose whales. |
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The waters around the islands are home to pods of huge sperm whales, northern bottlenose whales, pilot whales, Orcas and Sowerby's beaked whales. |
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As we find out here, northern bottlenose whales don't usually visit the North Sea, so had rising water temperatures moved her food source? |
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We examined and compared the reactions of northern bottlenose whales to biopsy darting and tagging. |
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That's been borne out with killer whales, which are another toothed whale similar to bottlenose dolphins. |
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The behavior and feeding ecology of the Pacific coast bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. |
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The aquarium would include manta rays, hammerhead sharks and controversial Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins. |
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Not only was there a fin whale but also six bottlenose dolphins, one white-beaked dolphin and three harbour porpoises. |
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An unusual and very rare hybrid dolphin, known as a wolphin, is kept at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii, which is a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. |
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The two ecotypes of the common bottlenose dolphin within the western North Atlantic are represented by the shallower water or coastal ecotype and the more offshore ecotype. |
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Assessment of epidermal condition and calf size of Fiordland bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus populations using dorsal fin photographs and photogrammetry. |
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A study conducted by the University of Chicago showed that bottlenose dolphins can remember whistles of other dolphins they'd lived with after 20 years of separation. |
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The neocortical neuron number of the bottlenose dolphin is unknown. |
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Risso's dolphins have successfully been taken into captivity in Japan and the United States, although not with the regularity of bottlenose dolphins or orcas. |
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The bottlenose dolphin typically rises to the surface to breathe through its blowhole two to three times per minute, although it can remain submerged for up to 20 minutes. |
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Observations of northern bottlenose whales in the Norwegian Sea are rare. |
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Since then 14 whale sharks, 4 mobulids rays, 2 sunfishes, 1 Longman's beaked whale, 2 bottlenose dolphin and thousands of marine turtles had been released. |
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Some large shark species, such as the tiger shark, the dusky shark, the great white shark and the bull shark, prey on the bottlenose dolphin, especially calves. |
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Killer whale populations in New Zealand and Peru have been observed preying on bottlenose dolphins, but this seems rare, and other orcas may swim with dolphins. |
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Researchers of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute first quantified data about solitary bottlenose dolphin diving behavior in the presence and absence of boats. |
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For example, in the town of Laguna in south Brazil, a pod of bottlenose dolphins resides in the estuary, and some of its members cooperate with humans. |
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Eight bottlenose dolphins that lived at the Marine Life Aquarium in Gulfport, Mississippi were swept away from their aquarium pool during Hurricane Katrina. |
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The military of the United States and Russia train bottlenose dolphins as military dolphins for wartime tasks, such as locating sea mines and detecting enemy divers. |
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The popular television show Flipper, created by Ivan Tors, portrayed a bottlenose dolphin in a friendly relationship with two boys, Sandy and Bud. |
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These are the harbour porpoise, bottlenose dolphin and common dolphin. |
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The latest example is bottlenose dolphin, an endangered species. |
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Fin whales and Sei whales are thought to breed here, although you're more likely to spot more modest Minke whales, bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises. |
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The handful of species tested so far, including blue whales, elephant seals, and bottlenose dolphins, stop swimming as they work their way downward. |
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Around 50 volunteers and rescue workers tried to save the northern bottlenose whale after it became stuck on harbour flats in Langstone, Hampshire. |
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Vocalizations and associated underwater behavior of free-ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis and bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus. |
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Last year's impressive headcount included four northern bottlenose whales as well as up to 100 bottlenose dolphins and scores of common dolphins and porpoises. |
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Two unusual and rare hybrid dolphins, known as wolphins, are kept at Sea Life Park in Hawaii, which is a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. |
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Along with harbour porpoises and common and bottlenose dolphins, the UK's waters have species including humpback whales, killer whales and sperm whales. |
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