Sagitta lies within the Milky Way and is bordered by the following constellations ( beginning at the north and then continuing clockwise ): the little fox Vulpecula, the mythological hero Hercules, the eagle Aquila and the dolphin Delphinus.

In traditional Amazon River folklore, at night, an Amazon river dolphin becomes a handsome young man who seduces girls, impregnates them, and then returns to the river in the morning to become a dolphin again.

They made their first catch off of Seabright, New Jersey on September 21, 1912, where they harpooned and then reeled in a bottlenose dolphin.

Their ancestors originally occupied marine habitats, but were then displaced from these habitats by modern dolphin lineages.

The dolphin will often then examine its creation visually and with sonar.

Akeakamai, a bottlenose dolphin, was able to understand both individual words and basic sentences like " touch the frisbee with your tail and then jump over it " ( Herman, Richards, & Wolz 1984 ).

After the start a gliding phase follows under water, followed by one underwater pulldown and dolphin kick, then one whip kick as the hands are recovered back to a streamline.

The swimmer then pushes off the wall with both legs and starts the regular underwater phase of backstroke, usually a dolphin kick for up to 15 m before surfacing and swimming normal backstroke.

As the wave passes, one dives into the ' back ' of the wave and gives a quick kick ( with fins ) or single crawl-stroke, and then tucks the body into a ' dolphin shape ' by tucking the chin to the chest, hunching the shoulders, bringing the hands into the inner thighs or even pockets, stiffening the whole body, and creating a concave ' air bubble ' in the chest.

These findings are somewhat problematic taxonomically, since the white-beaked dolphin is the type species of the genus Lagenorhynchus ; if the other species are not closely related to the white-beaked dolphin, then they must be removed from the genus.

The dolphin will often then examine its creation visually and with sonar.

Furious, Homer retaliates by punching the dolphin, and then encourages the townspeople to fight back.

The sequence loosely traces a family, of the Roman Empire and then of Britain, who inherit an emerald seal ring bearing the insignia of a dolphin.

The dolphin is seen over a wider interval of latitudes than other Cephalorhynchus species-from Valparaíso at 33 ° S to Cape Horn at 55 ° S. The species appears to prefer areas of shallow water ( less than 200 m depth ) and in particular enjoys fast-flowing tidal areas and mouths of rivers.

The dolphin appears to be common in all areas of its range, though that may not be continuous in areas of low population density do exist.

* A shark or a dolphin or a seagull occasionally appears in Surfing after a player falls off the board.

In the interests of safety the crew must be prepared to release the dolphin striker and allow the boat to capsize for a second time if it appears that they are in danger of being lifted clear of the water.

Enzo offers Jacques and Johana a gift, a glass dolphin as well as a tape measure displaying the difference between Jacques ’ and Enzo ’ s world records.

After swimming away with the dolphin, Jacques is brought back to the surface, only this time, in what seems to be an alternate reality.

In the HBO movie Zeus and Roxanne, a female bottlenose dolphin befriends a male dog, and in Bermuda Triangle, a girl named Annie ( played by Lisa Jakub ) swims with dolphins.

In the Hindu collection of stories called Bhagavata Purana, all the visible stars and planets moving through space are likened to a dolphin that swims through the water, and the heavens is called śiśumãra cakra, the dolphin disc.

Whale and dolphin meat, controversially caught in Taiji-cho ( 13 miles away ), is also eaten.

( 2006 )) showed powerboat approaches within 100m altered the dolphin surface behaviour from traveling to milling, and changed their direction to travel away from the powerboat.

Stand here for a few moments and look at this gem of a fountain with its four youths, each holding a tortoise and each with a foot resting on the head of a dolphin.

There are also dolphin shows daily and a swim with dolphins program.

Cetaceans make up for their generally poor vision ( with the exception of the dolphin ) with excellent hearing.

The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

There he met a female dolphin called Clown and formed a close bond with her.

L ’ Homo Delphinus ( 1983, published in English as Homo Delphinus – The dolphin within man ) – Throughout his book Mayol expounds his theories about man ’ s relationship with the sea: Does man really have an aquatic origin?

This meaning of grampus should not be confused with the Grampus genus, whose only member is Risso's dolphin.

When seen from a distance, juveniles can be confused with other cetacean species, such as the false killer whale or Risso's dolphin.

Its integument, unlike that of most other dolphin species, is characterised by a well-developed dermal layer with a dense network of fascicles of collagen fibers.

Carousel feeding has only been documented in the Norwegian killer whale population and with some oceanic dolphin species.

The 2008 documentary shows interviews with ( amongst others ) tourist officials, surfers, and dolphin watchers.

Demeter was depicted in her archaic form, a Medusa type with a horse's head with snaky hair, holding a dove and a dolphin.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

The King ordered them to be crucified at the monument of the dolphin, but Apollo, because of Arion's skill with the cithara, placed him and the dolphin among the stars.

" Because of this he ordered them to be kept under guard, and instructed Arion to hide in the monument of the dolphin the next morning, attired as he was when he threw himself into the sea.

But Apollo, who had Delphinios as one of his cult epithets, leapt into the ship in the form of a dolphin ( delphinos ).

* Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abduct Dionysus but was turned into a dolphin by the god.

The South Asian river dolphin ( Platanista gangetica ) is a freshwater or river dolphin found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan which is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin ( P. g. gangetica ) and Indus river dolphin ( P. g. minor ).

In 2007 fears were expressed that China's Finless Porpoise, a native of the lake, might follow the baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, into extinction.

While these are largely laboratory studies, field studies relating to dolphin and cetacean cognition are also relevant to the issue of intelligence, including those proposing tool use, culture, fission-fusion social structure ( including tracking alliances and other cooperative behavior ), acoustic behavior ( bottlenose dolphin signature whistles, sperm whale clicks, orca pod vocalizations ), foraging methods ( partial beaching, cooperation with human fishermen, herding fish into a ball, etc .).

Armbruster and Sieg combined these techniques into a variant of the breaststroke called butterfly, with the two kicks per cycle being called dolphin fishtail kick.

Much of the old scientific data in the field combine data about the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and the common bottlenose dolphin into a single group, making it effectively useless in determining the structural differences between the two species.

It is said to be responsible for disappearances and unwanted pregnancies, and it can never be seen by daylight, because it metamorphoses into a kind of river dolphin during those hours.

After it reaches its maximum height the dolphin descends back into the water, landing on its side.

In 2007 fears were expressed that China's finless porpoise, known locally as the jiangzhu (" river pig "), a native of the lake, might follow the baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, into extinction.

In some episodes, he would transform into a third animal, such as a horse, dolphin, bear, or bull, with the transformation taking place offscreen, though once he was shown becoming a snake.

She was destroyed by Shirobon's bomb when Dolphin Bomber tries to jump through a hoop created by modifying Gangu ; she was turned back into a normal dolphin.

Grimwood's fascination with cetacean intelligence, encounters with dolphins and research into intraspecies dolphin communication gave him the inspiration for Into the Deep ( William Morrow, 1995 ), about a marine biologist struggling to crack the code of dolphin intelligence.

Sherman once attempted to have him and the dolphin sign a peace treaty, only to have the dolphin trick Sherman into signing a contract leaving all of his possessions to him in the event of his demise, followed by a contract donating all of Sherman's organs for immediate research.