Dolphins [noun]

Sean Pierce, who captained the speedy 35-foot inflatable raft, narrated an entertaining trip that mixed snorkeling with stops as spinner dolphins or humpbacks came into view.

The ocean soundtrack of the popular imagination is a largely silent one, interrupted only by the mournful aria of migrating whales or the acapella vocalizations of dolphin pods.

Guards visit communities and share dolphin-rescue hotline numbers to report incidents of dolphins stranded on the riverbank or in canals.

When dolphins play with air bubbles, they are honing their skills at confusing and catching prey.

Previous studies had suggested dolphins can learn from peers.

“It is pretty mind-blowing,” says Wild, who studied these dolphins as a graduate student at the University of Leeds in England.

Shoals of tunny-fish, (fish four and five feet long, and belonging to the dolphin tribe,) were seen tumbling about the ship.

Of these the “Dolphin” is the largest, standing at the corner of Dragon Street, where the high-road passes by.

For the rest, the “Dolphin” is a singularly dull and unromantic-looking house, painted a leaden hue.

British commodore Byron sailed from the Downs in the Dolphin, on his voyage round the world.