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With the cetacean season underway, we shine a light on White-beaked Dolphin, one of Britain's lesser-known dolphin species.
Although not as menacing as a great white, the zoo says the pair are anything but ordinary and have an important job.
Jessica Fox, Vice President of the Organisation for Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA), said that the ...
They are "brownish-gray with rust-colored spots on top and white underneath ... They have a tall dorsal fin on their back and large pectoral fins on either side of their body.
White spots on nails (known as leukonychia) are a common condition that may affect one nail or multiple nails. Leukonychia may appear as spots, bands, or streaks. Leukonychia is generally harmless ...
Pectoral fin I,6; pectoral-fin spine reaching beyond insertion ... and skin covering dorsal-fin base with distinct round white to cream-colored spots. Spots largest and more remotely spaced on ...
Their surprising victims: great white sharks. Shark experts such as ... each with a gaping wound on its underbelly near the pectoral fins. Researchers assumed humans must have been responsible.
Caudal fin rounded. Pectoral fins elliptical ... rectangular dark bar below eye and small dark grayish triangular spot dorsoposterior to eye not reaching parietal neuromasts. Iris white anteriorly and ...
Its grunting calls and wing-like pectoral fins distinguish it ... while pelvic fins are white. There is a distinctive black spot between the fourth and fifth spines on the first dorsal fin.
and white on the throat, belly and sides. When whale watching, look out for, of course, its distinctive humped back, or particularly long pectoral fins — humpback whales have the longest ...