Sites

Spinner, Spotted, and Striped Dolphins - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/cetacea/cetacea.delp

These dolphins can swim at speeds of 22-28 km/hr. They often seem to frolic about ships and ride the bow waves. They sometimes jump clear of the water, and the spinner dolphins derive their name from their habit of leaping above the surface and turning two or more times on their longitudinal axis.

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Stenella Striata (Stenella Coeruleoalba) - Italian
URL: http://www.whale-watch.org/whales.nsf/pages/stenella

Alimentazione: specie "generalistica", che può cibarsi di varie specie di pesci, calamari e crostacei a seconda delle disponibilità. La dentatura è ben sviluppata su entrambe le mascelle. Alcuni studi hanno evidenziato che, per procacciarsi il cibo, durante la notte la stenella striata tende ad avvicinarsi alla costa.

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Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) - English
URL: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/stenlong.htm

Habits. Spinner dolphins derive their name from a habit of leaping from the water and warping their bodies into graceful curves, or spinning lengthwise before splashing back. The motives for this behavior are not known but such actions are often in themselves enough to distinguish this species.

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Striped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba - English
URL: http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mammals/whales/accounts/striped.htm

Features.

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Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/stenella/s._longirostris$narrativ

Stenella longirostris is mostly pelagic. It does spend time in both shallow waters and deeper water farther from land.

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Stenella attenuata (Spotted Dolphin): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/stenella/s._attenuata$narrative.h

S. attenuata lives in the tropical and subtropical areas of the ocean and seas. Although some live inshore, most members of the species live offshore, where the temperature of the deeper water remains fairly constant. The majority of this species live in between the equator and the Galapagos Islands for the same reason that they tend to live offshore. The home range is hundreds of kilometers in diameter.

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CETACEA: Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin) - English
URL: http://www.cetacea.org/pspot.htm

Cetacea - the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises all on one site. The Pantropical Spotted Dolphin inhabits tropical and some warm temperate waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin) - English
URL: http://www.cetacea.org/striped.htm

Cetacea - the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises all on one site. This species is found in warm temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.

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