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Also known as 🐬, Dolphin, dolphins, dolphin calf

A dolphin is any one of the 40 extant species of aquatic mammal from the cetacean families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the probably extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). All these families belong to the parvorder Odontoceti, i.e., toothed whales, which also include the closely related families Monodontidae (beluga and narwhal) and Phocoenidae (porpoises), as well as the more distant families Physeteroidea (sperm whales) and Ziphiidae (beaked whales

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Dolphins are aquatic mammals belonging to the toothed whale group, with about 40 living species found in oceans and rivers across five different families. They matter as significant members of marine ecosystems and are closely related to other cetaceans like beluga whales, narwhals, and porpoises.

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Dolphin Morbillivirus in Eurasian Otters, Italy.Emerging infectious diseases · 2019Padalino I, Di Guardo G, Carbone A et al.DOI: 10.3201/eid2502.180256
Dolphin-inspired skin microvibrations can accelerate swimming.Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2025Wang D, Liu HDOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ae1397
[The dolphin].ReviewRevue des corps de sante des armees terre, mer, air · 1970Bourcart
Dolphin skin as a natural anisotropic compliant wall.ReviewBioinspiration & biomimetics · 2006Pavlov VVDOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/1/2/001
Dolphin echo-delay resolution measured with a jittered-echo paradigm.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Finneran JJ, Jones R, Guazzo RA et al.DOI: 10.1121/10.0001604
Anatomy and physics of the exceptional sensitivity of dolphin hearing (Odontoceti: Cetacea).ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2010Hemilä S, Nummela S, Reuter TDOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0504-x
Effects of vessels on common dolphin activity patterns in a critical area for the species. Conservation implications.ReviewMarine environmental research · 2025Olaya-Ponzone L, Espada Ruíz R, Martín Moreno E et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107081
Whistle discrimination and categorization by the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): a review of the signature whistle framework and a perceptual test.ReviewBehavioural processes · 2008Harley HEDOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.002

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