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Marine Mammals: Dolphins

This page features images of bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, pilot whales, spotted dolphins, Risso's dolphins, and striped dolphins.

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White-sided dolphins swimming in the ocean.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christin Khan.
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White-sided dolphins swimming in the ocean.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christin Khan.
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Bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) seen from the <em>Henry B. Bigelow</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Allison Henry Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christin Khan.
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Bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) seen by the marine mammal survey staff on the NOAA research vessel, <em>Henry B. Bigelow</em>. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Todd Pusser.
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Bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>).
Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
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Bottlenose dolphins (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) seen from the <em>Henry B. Bigelow</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Allison Henry.
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Bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) pod with two calves, aerial view.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Allison Henry.
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Common dolphin (<em>Delphinus delphis</em>).
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Northeast Fisheries Observer Program.
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Common dolphins (<em>Delphinus delphis</em>) bow-riding.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Sasha McFarland.
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Common dolphin (<em>Delphinus delphis</em>) pod swimming alongside the <em>Delaware II</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Chris Melrose.
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Short-beaked common dolphin (<em>Delphinus delphis</em>) seen during a NOAA NEFSC Marine Mammal Survey Cruise.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Todd Pusser.
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Aerial photo of pilot whales (<em>Globicephala melas</em>) taken during an AMAPPS survey aboard the NOAA Twin Otter.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Tim Cole.
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Long-finned pilot whale (<em>Globicephala melas</em>).
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Danielle Cholewiak.
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Long-finned pilot whale (<em>Globicephala melas</em>). Notice distinct anchor-shaped ventral marking.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Danielle Cholewiak.
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Long-finned pilot whale (<em>Globicephala melas</em>) and calf seen from the <em>Henry B. Bigelow</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Danielle Cholewiak.
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Long-finned pilot whale (<em>Globicephala melas</em>) calf. Note the ventral fetal fold marks.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Danielle Cholewiak.
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Atlantic spotted dolphin (<em>Stenella frontalis</em>), seen from the <em>Bigelow</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Allison Henry.
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Risso's dolphins (<em>Grampus griseus</em>), with a calf in the lower left corner.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Allison Henry.
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Risso's dolphins (<em>Grampus griseus</em>).
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Brenda Rone.
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Striped dolphin (<em>Stenella coeruleoalba</em>) seen jumping from the Atlantic Ocean alongside the <em>Bigelow</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Richard Holt.
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