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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 ).
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Akeakamai and bottlenose
However, Herman, Richards, and Wolz demonstrated comprehension of an artificial language by two bottlenose dolphins ( named Akeakamai and Phoenix ) in the period of skepticism toward animal language following Herbert Terrace's critique.
* Akeakamai ( bottlenose dolphin )
Akeakamai and dolphin
* Akeakamai – the real-life dolphin from Louis Herman's animal language research, after whom a neo-dolphin member of the Streakers crew is named.
bottlenose and dolphin
Other cetaceans commonly seen in the area include pilot whale, fraser's dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin and bottlenose dolphin.
* and is used casually as a synonym for bottlenose dolphin, the most common and familiar species of dolphin.
In captivity, a bottlenose and a rough-toothed dolphin produced hybrid offspring.
Occasionally, other species are hunted as well, such as the northern bottlenose whale and Atlantic white-sided dolphin.
Jumping bottlenose dolphin
Some predators kill large prey and dismember or chew it prior to eating it, such as a jaguar or a human ; others may eat their ( usually much smaller ) prey whole, as does a bottlenose dolphin swallowing a fish, or a snake, duck or stork swallowing a frog.
Formerly three types of dolphins, short-beaked common dolphin, common bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise, regularly visited the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea.
They made their first catch off of Seabright, New Jersey on September 21, 1912, where they harpooned and then reeled in a bottlenose dolphin.
A wholphin or wolphin is a rare hybrid born from a mating of a female bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) with a male False Killer Whale ( Pseudorca crassidens ).
Only months after birth, it was the size of a 1-year-old bottlenose dolphin.
Recent molecular studies show the genus contains two species, the common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops aduncus ), instead of one.
There have been numerous investigations of bottlenose dolphin intelligence.
* The common bottlenose dolphin ( T. truncatus ) is found in most tropical to temperate oceans ; its color is grey, with the shade of grey varying among populations ; it can be bluish-grey, brownish-grey, or even nearly black, and is often darker on the back from the rostrum to behind the dorsal fin.
* The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin ( T. aduncus ) lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern coast of Africa ; the back is dark-grey and the belly is lighter grey or nearly white with grey spots.
* The Pacific bottlenose dolphin ( T. gillii or T. t. gillii ) lives in the Pacific, and has a black line from the eye to the forehead.
* The Black Sea bottlenose dolphin ( T. truncatus ponticus ) lives in the Black Sea.
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.
As a result of this genetic variation, other distinct species currently considered to be populations of common bottlenose dolphin are possible.
bottlenose and was
Two wolphins currently live at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii ; the first was born in 1985 from a male false killer whale and a female bottlenose.
Baird's and Cuvier's beaked whales were subject to commercial exploitation, off the coast of Japan, while the Northern bottlenose whale was extensively hunted in the northern part of the North Atlantic late in the 19th and early in the 20th centuries.
The first was born in 1985 to a female bottlenose.
It is estimated that he was born in the mid-1970s and with a normal life expectancy for his species of 25 years, he is now very old by bottlenose dolphin standards.
The tropical bottlenose whale ( Indopacetus pacificus ), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and the Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.
The paper used DNA analysis to show the tropical bottlenose whale is likely to be an independent genus, but information on other species was too lacking to establish any concrete phylogeny.
The external physical appearance was also revealed, and a firm connection was established with the mysterious tropical bottlenose whales that had been sighted in the Indian and Pacific Oceans since the 1960s.
In 2009, the first confirmed sighting was made of tropical bottlenose whales in the southern Bay of Bengal.
One of the resulting common dolphin / bottlenose dolphin hybrids remained at SeaWorld, San Diego ( alternately under the name Cindy or Bullet ) while the other was kept at Discovery Cove.
The northern bottlenose was hunted heavily by Norway and Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
On 20 January 2006, a northern bottlenose whale was spotted in Central London in the River Thames.
In that year, the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was recognized as a separate species.
Although this species has been traditionally called the bottlenose dolphin, many authors have used the name common bottlenose dolphin for this species since a second bottlenose dolphins species, the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, was described.
The bottlenose dolphins ' asset was their highly evolved biosonar, helping to find underwater mines, and the sea lions ' asset was their impeccable underwater vision, which can help to detect enemy swimmers.
Ocean Park Hong Kong was the first institution in the world to have success in artificial insemination of bottlenose dolphins, and developed numerous new breeds of goldfish.
It was estimated in 2001 that there are 161 bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops aduncus )
Winter, the bottlenose dolphin notable for her prosthetic tail ( who's story was featured in the film Dolphin Tale ), was rescued from Mosquito Lagoon in December 2005.
bottlenose and both
The Longman's beaked whales look rather similar to both mesoplodont beaked whales and bottlenose whales, which led to a great deal of taxonomic confusion.
The rather unusual coloration of the juveniles helped connect the Longman's to the tropical bottlenose whale ; both have dark backs behind the blowholes, which quickly shade down to a light gray and then white.
bottlenose and basic
, scientists have observed limited groups of bottlenose dolphins around the Australian Pacific using a basic tool.
" This ability not only demonstrates the bottlenose dolphin's grasp of basic grammar, but also implies the dolphins ' own language must include some such syntactical rules.
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