common dolphins
Gregarious marine mammals
Common dolphins are small, highly social cetaceans found in warm and temperate oceans worldwide.
They display distinctive hourglass patterns on their sides—tan or yellowish patches forward, gray toward the tail.
Traveling in pods that can number in the thousands, they're known for acrobatic leaps and bow-riding alongside ships.
The name distinguishes them from bottlenose dolphins, which are actually more familiar to most people through aquariums and television.
- porpoiseSmall toothed whale relative
- whalesMassive marine mammals
- cetaceanAquatic mammal order
- mammalWarm-blooded, milk-producing animal
- podSeed case or cetacean group
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common dolphinsbaleen whales
Bristle-mouthed marine mammals
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common dolphinsbottlenose dolphins
Beaked cetaceans known for intelligence
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