A bottlenose dolphin freed from a fishing net in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour has died from blood poisoning caused by its ...

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) have a relatively short beak and a high, with a hooked and prominent dorsal fin. They are dark or light grey on the back grading to white on the undersides, ...

They feed on fish, often working as a team to hunt. A chunky, fairly plain grey dolphin, darker above and paler below. Their beak is short and stubby and their dorsal fin is large, sickle-shaped and ...

The dorsal fin is like a dolphin's fingerprint ... He added that male bottlenose dolphins communicate by "play-biting each other". "They are not trying to injure people, but are using the dolphins ...

Dolphins with scars on their dorsal fins, mouth lines and bodies were studied ... nonprofit foundation’s long-term historic data on bottlenose and spotted dolphins collected over a 24-year ...

Currently, dolphins are told apart by the nicks and notches on their dorsal fins—scars received socially or from boats or fishing lines. These accumulate over a dolphin’s lifetime. Bottlenose dolphins ...

The bull known to conservationists as John Coe can be identified by a notch on his dorsal fin and a missing chunk ... famous for its population of bottlenose dolphins. A photograph taken by ...

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins live in schools ... A 66-year-old man was bitten on his left hand when he grabbed the dorsal fin of a dolphin in shallow waters in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture ...