While on a mission to find images of southern right whales I happened upon Dennis Buurman’s beautiful online gallery of marine mammals from the coasts of New Zealand. Take a look at the images he presents including dusky dolphins, Hector’s dolphin, sperm whales, albatross, fur seals, and other ocean wildlife. Just gorgeous.
The moment of truth has arrived. Let’s see if my attempts to memorize and list all the ocean going dolphins, all the porpoises, and all the freshwater dolphins have actually paid off.
Family Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins)
1. Atlantic bottlenose
2. Indopacific bottlenose
3. Atlantic spotted
4. Indopacific spotted
5. Atlantic humpbacked dolphin
6. Pacific humpbacked dolphin
7. Northern right whale dolphin
8. Southern [...]
For the last few months my personal challenge was to memorize and list all 32-36 species of oceanic dolphin, all five species of freshwater dolphin, and all six species of true porpoise.
But perhaps I should back up a few squares first and relate a bit about the dolphin family tree. There are roughly eighty known [...]
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Normally I only peruse AskMen.com if I’m looking for a window into the modern male mind (though frequently the answers I find are more perplexing than my original questions). Imagine my shock and amusement then when I found an email at the ‘Notes inbox detailing a great roundup of videos posted at AskMen.com for [...]
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