Dolphin Fun

A fan-site dedicated to dolphins! Home of dolphin pictures, fun wallpaper, and interesting facts about our flippered dolphin friends! See the last page for a dolphin surprise!


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Two dolphins enjoy their underwater world.
Image Source: Original computer graphic imaging by Alan Cole. Used with permission.

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Fact: Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes. Source: MIT Sea Grant Fact: An excerpt from the World Wildlife Fund (2005) concerning the order Cetacea, which includes both whales and dolphins: "The greatest threat to whales, dolphins and porpoises is entanglement in fishing gear, also known as bycatch. If current trends continue unabated, several cetacean species and many populations will be lost in the next few decades." Source: World Wildlife Fund Fact: Fish and squid are the diet of the common dolphin, where the dolphins have been seen hunting and working together to herd the fish into tight balls. Source: American Cetacean Society

A dolphin swims alongside a humpback whale to say "hello"!
Image Source: Original computer graphic imaging by Alan Cole. Used with permission.

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Fact: Dolphins sleep with one half of their brain plus one eye closed, then switching to the other side of the brain and the other eye closed during other parts of the day -- slowing down everything inside their bodies and moving very little. Source: MIT Sea Grant Fact: Because the spinner dolphin swims with the yellowfin tuna, they have been slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands in the purse-seine tuna fisheries, which has produced the controversy that led to the enactment of national and international laws for dolphin safe tuna. Source: American Cetacean Society Fact: Baby dolphins are sucked forward by the motion of their swimming mothers -- giving them a needed assist -- when they position themselves to the right and behind their mothers. Source: Discovery Channel News

A mother dolphin and her baby.
Image Source: M. Herko, OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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