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dolphin
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dolphin
a member of the suborder Odonotoceti of the order Cetacea, the whales. Includes the Amazon and Ganges freshwater dolphins, the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and the bottle-nosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), and the Arctic dolphin, more commonly called the beluga whale. Others include Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer).


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In what may be an allusion to Oshun's power to cause an unsettled stomach, Santiago also eats a raw dolphinfish (dorado) and remarks that while it is not sweet, "I have chewed it all well and I am not nauseated" (79).
Observations of schooling behaviors of filefishes (Monacanthidae), dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), and jacks (Carangidae), and fish-jellyfish associations were also recorded with an underwater video camera.
About the same time, yellowfin and dolphinfish begin to appear and many anglers troll for them as far out as Washington, Poorman''s and Norfolk Canyons.
 
 
 
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