Lycaon

Daily whale doodle (Day 53): False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) A highly social oceanic dolphin found worldwide (mainly in tropical regions), their name comes from having a similar skull to orcas. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 52): Melon-Headed Whale (Peponocephala electra) A small oceanic dolphin species native to deep tropical/subtropical waters worldwide. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 51): Australian Snubfin Dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) A vulnerable dolphin species native to north Australian waters. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

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Daily whale doodle (Day 49): Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus) A large species of dolphin found worldwide in cold to temperate waters, they exhibit scars from social interactions, and can dive up to 600 meters when hunting. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 48): Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas) The second largest species of dolphin after the orca, this species can be found in the North Atlantic & Southern Hemisphere. They're also the species most often involved in mass strandings. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 47): Short-Finned Pilot Whale Mainly found in tropical/subtropical waters worldwide, this dolphin species is highly social and hunts squid at depths of around 1,000 meters. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 46): Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) The smallest known cetacean with "whale" in its name, this species is rare and poorly known, despite having a worldwide distribution in tropical/temperate waters. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 45): Tursiops erebennus (Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphin) A dolphin species native to the Eastern US's coastal waters, this species was initially believed to be a common bottlenose dolphin population until 2023. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 44): Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) A dolphin species found in waters around India, north Australia, south China, the Red Sea, and East Africa. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 43): Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) A dolphin species that inhabits temperate and tropical waters worldwide, and is commonly kept in aquariums and marine parks (and a species that I got to see myself when I visited the Brookfield Zoo back in March). The internet could never convince me that these guys are truly evil.

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Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean, this species is the only confirmed marine mammal formed through hybrid speciation, descending from spinner & striped dolphins. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 40): Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) A small tropical offshore dolphin found worldwide that is known for spinning acrobatically during leaps. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 39): Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella frontalis) A species of dolphin found in warm temperate & tropical waters of the Atlantic. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 38): Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) A species of dolphin found in temperate & tropical oceans across the world. 💙/🔁 are welcomed!

Daily whale doodle (Day 37): Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (Sousa teuszii) A critically endangered species of dolphin found off the coast of West Africa. 💙/🔁 are welcomed & appreciated!