Image:Bottlenose Dolphin KSC04pd0178.jpg

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This "featured" picture is not a porpoise. It is a bottlenose dolphin. Porpoises are not dolphins. Porpoises have more curved snouts and their fin isn't as long as the bottlenose's dolphins fin.

Description
Español: Delfín nariz de botella
English: Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus A dolphin surfs the wake of a research boat on the Banana River - near the Kennedy Space Center.
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2004-02-05
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current16:01, 17 April 20052,587×1,709 (1.07 MB)Solipsist (en:Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=21807 {{PD-USGov-NASA}} ''A dolphin surfs the wake of a research boat on the Banana River'' - near the Kennedy Space Center. [[Category:Delph)
15:57, 17 April 20053,000×1,995 (5.88 MB)Solipsist (en:Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=21807 {{PD-USGov-NASA}} ''A dolphin surfs the wake of a research boat on the Banana River'' - near the Kennedy Space Center. [[Category:Delph)