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Oceanic dolphins are the most varied family of cetaceans. They hunt by echolocation. They send out sounds and listen for the echo to find prey. A few members are called whales although they belong here. They live in social groups and communicate by whistles.
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Delphinidae
Stenella frontalis · Least concern
Its spots tell its age. The young are two-tone until speckles appear at weaning around 3 or 4 years old. Mottled and then fused phases follow, until older dolphins are spotted all over. At night they hunt in groups and encircle their prey.
Photo: CaptainDarwin (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Delphinidae
Lagenorhynchus acutus · Least concern
No other ocean-going cetacean wears the Atlantic white-sided dolphin's colour patterns. It lives in the cool North Atlantic, notably off Newfoundland and Cape Cod and between Britain, Iceland and Greenland, and feeds mainly on herring, mackerel and squid.
Photo: Anna (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Delphinidae
Stenella clymene · Least concern
It is the only confirmed marine mammal born of hybrid speciation: its ancestors are the spinner and the striped dolphins. Gray described it in 1846 but only named it four years later, and until 1981 it was taken for a subspecies of the spinner dolphin.
Photo: Keith Mullin (NOAA) (Public domain)
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