Dolphin

n. type of marine mammal

Dolphins are aquatic mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 metres (4 ft) and 40 kilograms (88 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and ten tonnes (the Orca or Killer Whale). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about ten million years ago, during the Miocene. Dolphins are considered to be amongst the most intelligent of animals and their often friendly appearance and seemingly playful attitude have made them popular in human culture.
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Hardy Jones is a wildlife and conservation filmmaker. He began his career in radio at WNOE in New Orleans and has worked for United Press International, The Peruvian Times, and CBS News. He has been a television documentary producer since 1978 when he made his first film, entitled DOLPHIN, with Michael Wiese. The film depicts a school of spotted dolphins residing 40 miles north of Grand Bahamas Island in the Bahamas. Since 1978 Jones has returned countless times to visit these dolphins and to film them. Some of the dolphins have become internationally famous - Chopper, a 27 year old male, for instance. Chopper was filmed by Jones for the first time in 1979 and appeared in the 1997 PBS film The Dolphin Defender.
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Noun
1. large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
(synonym) dolphinfish, mahimahi
(hypernym) percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
(hyponym) Coryphaena hippurus
(member-holonym) Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae
(part-meronym) dolphinfish, mahimahi
(classification) Hawaii, Aloha State, HI
2. any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
(hypernym) toothed whale
(hyponym) common dolphin, Delphinus delphis
(member-holonym) Delphinidae, family Delphinidae

(n.)
The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
  

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In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
  

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A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
  

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A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
  

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A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
  

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A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
  

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A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
  

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A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
  

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A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
  

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