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Published: 2011-05-18 18:18:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 41268; Favourites: 917; Downloads: 0
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One of my favourites, a poster showing all species of the oceanic dolphin family. This poster was made in 2011 and as such does not include new discoveries like the Burrunan dolphin or the Humpback dolphins’ split into four species. A new, digital version, is (slowly) in the make.Related content
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Wonderful picture! It looks very realistic!
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Ohhh my goodness thank you so much for this wonderful comment!! It really made my day
I'm so happy that you find this fascinating, seeing all species together like this. I personally love big comparison plates too, so it was a piece after my own heart xD Still I'd love to remake it one day, in colour and with corrections to the dolphins (plus adding some new species that have been recognised!).
And that's not geeky at all - at least not in a bad way - to be honest I think your idea sounds absolutely fascinating. I love it when people take those well known mythical creatures or lore and try to make them actually viable or biologically realistic. It's awesome! And you're totally right, if mermaids were real, dolphin tails would be much more plausible that fish tails. Not to mention it just works easier with our spines as well haha.
But thank you so so much for your kind comments, they really mean a lot to me. Good luck to you in delving further into the wonderful world of dolphins 
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Hahaa, I'm glad I made your day! 
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Halo, Namu-the-Orca i am a super fan, you are very talented. I am a grachic desinge student and I am interested in making a whale and dolphin consevational awareness educational iBook on the diversity off Cetaceans in south african waters. I am extremely passionate about marine mammals
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Halo, Namu-the-Orca i am a super fan, you are very talented. I am a grachic desinge student and I am interested in making a whale and dolphin conservational awareness educational iBook on the diversity off Cetaceans in south african water. I am extremely passionate about marine mammals.
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Hiya again. I'm so happy to hear you like my work so much! I'd be more than interested in the project. It sounds really cool. I've sent you a note
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Hello Frédérique!
Your picture has been featured as header for my following poem:
Family by InsanelyCute
Literature / Poetry / Family Life / Haiku & Eastern
Thank you very much and Greetings from InsanelyCute (Orcinus orca) !
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Hey there. Thank you for notifying me of your use, but use in the first place isn't just allowed, especially not without asking. You write an elaborate copyright statement for your poems - and I do the same for my drawings. Isn't it a bit unfair to expect people to respect your wishes when you don't respect those of others? So I ask you to please remove my drawing as the header for your poem. Thank you.
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I had overseen the copyright notice. I remove the picture if it makes you happy.
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Beautiful picture. My favourites are the Bottlenose Dolphin, the Orca and the Commerson's Dolphin. I find them very cute.
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Thanks very much! They're pretty cute looking indeed (even if they're all formidable predators in their own right). If you ask me the Commerson's wins in pure cuteness alone, they are tiny and so adorable!
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They sure are! And I decided to make my own Bottlenose Dolphin character, Comet, and my own Commerson's Dolphin character, Pako!
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Oh that's great, good for you! I really like the names as well
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Thank you! And the reason I named the Bottlenose Comet is because when I was a kid I went to SeaWorld in Queensland a few years back and I played (but didn't swim) with a Bottlenose named Comet. But last year on my 19th birthday (I''ll be 20 this year in December) I swam with a Bottlenose named Bella. I really loved her! Here's a photo that was taken on my birthday: fav.me/d8fc8ud
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Ooohh how good for you that you got to meet Comet and Bella! It is so much fun to play with dolphins, even when not in the water with them. That picture with Bella is super cute though, she looks like a real pretty lady too. The dolphins at Sea World Australia are so gorgeous, I love that they have Indo-pacific bottlenoses. How nice that you got to swim with her on your birthday
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Yeah. And yes, Bella does look like a pretty lady. She loves to learn, likes being the centre of attention and she's pretty cheeky too!
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I'm going to use your graphic with your copyright well-displayed in a presentation to middle-schoolers this week. Any problem with that?
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Yep, that's okay! Great to know it'll be used for education 
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Very nice collection of images and references here. I personally (if you are care ^^) would have made a better distinction between the two Common dolphins especially in terms of melon shape etc. Your long-beaked has a short-beaked melon haha. Maybe its an integrade, we'll never know.
I don't suppose you know anywhere with links to Kerguelen Commerson's? I can't really find any references to this darker subspecies.
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Thanks! Just going through the links here makes me realise how many have been outdated and are in need of replacement haha. Well, another time I guess.
Oh I always value criticism, and your is very spot-on indeed. Fact is that rather a lot of the dolphin haven't been drawing all that amazingly anatomically correct, but especially after completing a huge 'research' paper on Common dolphin markings it's become overly evident to me the drawings here are a bit ehm.. lacking haha. So thank you for the criticism, and I'll be sure to keep anatomy very much in mind with any upcoming paintings
As for the Kerguelen Commerson's, actually I do! Here's two really nice pictures showing off that grey colour: media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736… 1.bp.blogspot.com/-RN5dkBDyN5M… Though I've read up on them in one of my field guides and it says there that the greyness doesn't always have to be as pronounced as in the first photo, some animals being nearly as neatly black-and-white as their conspecifics. They (Kerguelen animals) will almost always show more extensive and less clearly demarcated black markings though, no matter the grey or white colour in between
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That's a great topic to do a paper on...I'd be interested in seeing it actually, to see if my hundred year long search for information is correct or not...
Thanks for those images, the difference is quite obvious there. Can definitely see a more smudginess to them.
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If you send me your email address in a note I'd be more than willing to send you the paper 
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Where's 'X' ? Or is it considered a Subspecies? 
Btw, this is just Epic! 
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It's explained in the 'fun fact part'!
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^_^; Sorry for not reading
And thanks for replying too =3
Plus, that is very interesting
And on a random note I wonder what a Killer Whale (Orca) would do if he/she ever met up with a Tiger and vice versa.... =]
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Well, a recent study has been conducted on the whole sousa genus throughout the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific ocean, resulting in four separate species being assigned, instead of just two species with subspecies. So that's already been decided for us!
You have a wonderful christmas as well!
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Cool! =3
True
(tho the tiger could be on a small cliff over the water w/ the whale looking up
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Fantastic animals, totally agree
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Hectors dolphins are the second smallest 
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I'm sorry but Hector's dolphins really are the smallest species of dolphins in the world. Do you see the Maui's anywhere here on the poster? No. Why? Because it isn't a species! It's a subspecies, meaning that it is part of a 'true' species - in this case, the Hector's dolphin. So because Maui's are part of the greater whole that is the Hector's, Hector's dolphins are the smallest species of dolphins in the world. Maui's dolphins are the smallest subspecies of dolphin in the world
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Oooooh, I didn't know they were a subspecies 
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I don't think all that many people do - media love to just speak of the Maui as a species, not caring to mention it's actually conspecific with Hector's. Guess it makes for a better talk? Oh it's great they're taking measures like that. They need it.
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What about Amazon River and Baiji (Yangtze River) dolphins?
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They're not part of this family
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It was a lovely piece either way, haha. I get what you are saying now, though.
Also very helpful when trying to look through different species of dolphins (I found it through google while trying to find a comprehensive dolphin species picture). Good work and great contribution to the world!
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Yeah, it's hard to find a 'clear' poster with all the dolphin species, so I'm glad this is as helpful as I'd hoped it to be!
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Dolphins are awesome, I'm just obsessed with them, I'm probably going to spend a long time looking at this... XD
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Same here when it comes to being obsessed with them - especially hybrid dolphins; I go bonkers with those 
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Man, this iz epic! I like ur orca and bottlenose sketch!!
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Thanks a lot! Glad to know you like it
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UH YEAH IT'S AWESOME!!!
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this is amazing! will definitely have a proper read through when I'm not so tired haha.
thank you so much for doing this(:
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Thank you very much for the compliments! I'm really glad you like it and I hope you'll reading through some of the fun facts
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I love dolphins. The Orcas is my favourite animal in the world. My other favourite dolphins are the Bottlenose , the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin, the Dusky and the Hector's Dolphin.
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Thank you so much! Orcas are gorgeous and so special, and Bottlenoses, Spotties, Duskies and Hector's are all beautiful too
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