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Common Dolphin

(Delphinus delphis), a mammal of the Delphinidae family belonging to the Odontoceti suborder. Body length, up to 2.5 m. The upper part of the body and head are blackish, and the belly and sides are white (hence the name in Russian of belobochka, white-side). The dorsal and pectoral fins are sickle-shaped. The nose is narrow, long, and beak-shaped. The teeth are small and numerous (up to 240). The common dolphin is widely distributed in seas of the equatorial and temperate zones; it lives in the open sea. It feeds on anchovies, sprats, herring, capelin, and other small fish living in the upper layers of the seas. It congregates in schools which number up to several thousand individuals. In the Black Sea the common dolphin mates in July and August, and the gestation period lasts from ten to 11 months. Usually the female bears one young, whose body length is about 90 cm.

The common dolphin is a commercial fish; its fat and skin are used. The numbers of common dolphin have fallen sharply; only Turkey hunts it commercially. The USSR and Bulgaria have forbidden the commercial catching of dolphins for a ten-year period beginning in 1966.

REFERENCES

Kleinenberg, S. E. Mlekopitaiushchie Chernogo i Azovskogo morei. Moscow, 1956.
Tomilin, A. G. Kitoobraznye. Vol. 9 of the series Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran. Moscow, 1957.
Tomilin, A. G. Kitoobraznye fauny morei SSSR. Moscow, 1962.

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The North Sea inlet, which lies to the northeast of Inverness, is home to 130 bottlenose dolphins, as well as being an important area for harbour porpoises, common dolphins, minke whales, Risso's dolphins, orcas, pilot whales, basking sharks and sunfish.

Military threat to dolphins by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Common dolphins prefer deeper waters and normally only enter the bay for a couple of days to feed.

DOLPHIN UNFRIENDLY; Speedboat injury threat to Oban Bay visitors by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

A wide range of whale and dolphin sightings will be possible including huge schools of Common Dolphins, as well as Bottlenose Dolphins, Risso's Dolphins, Harbour Porpoises, Minke Whales and, on a good day, Orcas

Holiday Deals by Birmingham Mail (England)

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COmmon Business Oriented Language

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