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the difference between a whale and a dolphin is a dolphin's dorsal fin is halfway along its back, and a whale's dorsal fin is two-thirds the way along its back. the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise is that they have differently shaped teeth. the difference between a whale and a dolphin is a dolphin's dorsal fin is halfway along its back, and a whale's dorsal fin is two-thirds the way along its back. the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise is that they have differently shaped teeth.
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What dolphin is also known as the white whale?
A dolphin is also known as a porpoise. A white whale is usually a Beluga whale.
Are a porpoise and a dolphin the same thing?
A porpoise is s a mammal, similar to dolphins, manatees and narwhals.
Are killer whales dolphins or porpises?
The killer whale is in fact a dolphin not a porpoise.
What are the 40 species of dolphin?
There are 33 different types (though the site only lists 32) of marine dolphins, 4 types of river dolphins and 6 types of porpoises. Some you would never think were part of the dolphin family like the "Killer Whale or Orca". Marine -- White Beaked Dolphin Short Finned Pilot Whale Risso's Dolphin Pantropical Dolphin Long-Finned Pilot Whale Orcas (Killer Whale) Hourglass Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin False Killer Whale Commerson's Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Striped Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Pygmy Killer Whale Melon-Headed Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Frasier's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Black Dolphin Southern Right-Whale Dolphin Rough Toothed Dolphin Short Beaked Common Dolphin Pacific White-Sided Dolphin Northern Right-Whale Dolphin Long-Snouted Spinner Dolphin Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Indo-Pacific Hump-Back Atlantic White Sided Dolphin Atlantic Hump-Backed Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin River -- Baiji, or Yangtze river Dolphin Boto, or Amazon River Dolphin Franciscana or La plata Dolphin Indus & Ganges River Dolphin Porpoises -- Burmeister's Porpoise Dall's Porpoise Finless Porpoise Harbor Porpoise Spectacled Porpoise Vaquita Porpoise
What does the Latin word cetus mean?
Cetus = whale/dolphin/porpoise. The Romans did not differentiate
What is the name for a group of bottlenose dolphins?
A baby dolphin, whale, or porpoise is called a calf.
What other ocean mammal is there other than the whale?
Manatee, seal, dolphin, porpoise, sea otter.
Orca dolphin or porpoise?
An orca is a species of dolphin. It is in the group Delphinidae a group of oceanic dolphins. The orca is only called a killer whale because it has been seen killing other whales not because it is a whale :)
Do female dolphins produce milk?
Yes. While there are dolphin fish, the dolphin that looks like a porpoise and/or a small whale, is a mammal that has sex, gives birth and feeds it's young with nipples on it's body. The whale/porpoise/dolphin does not have breasts, because it is streamlined to help it swim in the water, but, the females do have nipples, while the males have a penis.
How many species of ocean dolphins are there?
There are 79 currently known species of whales.and they are› Andrews' Beaked WhaleAntarctic Minke WhaleArnoux's Beaked WhaleBaird's Beaked WhaleBeluga WhaleBlainville's Beaked WhaleBlue WhaleBowhead WhaleBryde's WhaleCommon Minke WhaleCuvier's Beaked WhaleDwarf Sperm WhaleFalse Killer WhaleFin WhaleGinkgo-toothed Beaked WhaleGray's Beaked WhaleGrey WhaleHector's Beaked WhaleHubbs' Beaked WhaleHumpback WhaleKiller WhaleLayard's Beaked WhaleLong Finned Pilot WhaleLongmans Beaked WhaleNarwhal WhaleNorth Atlantic Right WhaleNorth Pacific Right WhaleNorthern Bottlenose WhaleNorthern Minke WhalePerrin's Beaked WhalePilot WhalePygmy Beaked WhalePygmy Bryde's WhalePygmy Killer WhalePygmy Right WhalePygmy Sperm WhaleSei WhaleShepherd's Beaked WhaleSouthern Bottlenose WhaleSouthern Minke WhaleSperm WhaleStejneger's Beaked Whalesome of them i think
How do you say dolphin in maori?
Papahu means dolphin or porpoise (a transliteration of the English 'porpoise'). Terehu is the Maori name for the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Tupoupou is the Maori name for the Hector's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori). Maki is the Maori name for the Orca or Killer Whale (Orcinus orca). Aihe is the Maori name for the Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis).
What are all the breeds of whales you can get?
There are over 80 species of whales and dolphins divided into two subspecies (suborder); Odontocetes ( toothed whales) and Mysticetes (baleen whales). Whales and dolphins are both part of the cetaceans order but are part of 2 different families. Orcas are counted in the dolphin family because their teeth are cone shaped like a dolphins. porpoises are counted as dolphins also. All the ones i can think of are: Whales - Orca (killer whale, which is actually part of the dolphin family) Beluga Humpback Blue whale Finwhale Minke whale Sei whale Sperm whale Right whale Bowhead Grey whale Narwaal long-finned pilot whale short-finned pilot whale false killerwhale bryde's whale Dolphins and porpoises: Pacific white sided dolphin saddleback dolphin bottlenose dolphin spinner dolphin river dolphin atlantic spotted dolphin commerson's dolphin chilean dolphin heaviside's dolphin hector's dolphin rough-toothed dolphin indo-pacific bottlenosed dolphin atlantic humpback dolphin indian humpback dolphin pacific humpback dolphin tucuxi clymene dolphin pantropical spotted dolphin striped dolphin arabian common dolphin long beaked common dolphin fraser's dolphin atlantic white-sided dolphin dusky dolphin hourglass dolphin peale's dolphin white-beaked dolphin northern right whale dolphin southern right whale dolphin risso's dolphin melon headed whale pygmy killerwhale pygmy right whale pygmy sperm whale australian subfin dolphin irrawaddy dolphin Dals porpoise harbour porpoise there is a ridiculous amount of dolphins and porpoises and there are a lot more than i listed but theres just an idea of how many there really are!
