The Common Bottlenose Dolphin is probably the most recognizable dolphin species and it’s popular for its intelligence, friendliness and ‘smiling’ face. Learn all you need to know about these dolphins that are intelligent enough to spot large fishing boats and follow these boats for long distances seeking scraps of leftover fish.
The False Killer Whale displays a very unique behavior. It will approach divers in the water and offer them its prey. Sadly, this dolphin is experiencing dramatic decline in population.
The Hector’s dolphin is the rarest and smallest of dolphins in the world and is native to the waters off the coast of New Zealand.
The Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin is a well-known species that’s very similar to the common bottlenose dolphin. For long, researchers assumed they were the same species.
Though referred to as a whale, the Pilot Whale is actually a dolphin. It’s also one of the most well-known species prone to mass strandings.
The extremely rare Hourglass Dolphin is one of the smallest dolphins on our Planet. The Hourglass Dolphin is one of the smallest dolphins in the Delphinidae family and it’s native to the freezing waters of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic region. This extremely beautiful and remarkably fast dolphin is rarely ever seen. Consequently, not much is…
The Amazon River Dolphin is the largest in size among river dolphins and generally considered as the most ‘intelligent.’ Read all about it and the major threats it faces today.
The South Asian River Dolphin is the group term for 2 subspecies of endangered and ‘blind’ dolphins in parts of Asia.
The beautiful Irrawaddy Dolphin is severely threatened and is now functionally extinct in Laos. The Irrawaddy dolphin is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphins, i.e. they can tolerate a wide range of water salinity. Though very similar to the beluga whale in appearance, Irrawaddy dolphins are most closely related to the killer whale (orca). They are characterized by a…
No sea creature can prey on the orca whale. Learn all the facts about this dolphin that’s so fierce, its scientific name comes from the Roman god of the underworld, Orcus.
The Striped Dolphin is a fast swimming and very cosmopolitan marine mammal. Its also a direct target of dolphin hunters. Here are more facts about it.
The Atlantic Spotted Dolphin is a friendly and well-known species especially to people in the Bahamas. The Atlantic Spotted Dolphin is a cetacean species endemic in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the Atlantic. Adult individuals are easy to identify by the distinctive spotted coloring all over their bodies. This a relatively smaller-sized…