snubfin

Newly Discovered Dolphin Spits at Prey

bleimanb | April 14, 2009

A new species of dolphin dubbed the snubfin has been witnessed displaying some very unusual feeding behavior off the northern coast of Australia. Apparently the dolphins were witnessed chasing fish to the surface of the water and then streaming jets of water out of their mouths to round the fish up before eating them. I'm more of a Copenhagen mammel, myself. "This incredibly unusual behavior, first seen in Australia off the Kimberley Coast, has only been noted before in Irrawaddy dolphins, which are closely related to this species," Lydia Gibson of WWF Australia told the Northern Territory…

"World's Ugliest" Dolphins Filmed for the First Time

bleimanb | August 5, 2008

Australian snubfin dolphins. They don't look so ugly to us, but then again, Andrew and I are hideous to behold ourselves.