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Dolphin and Whale have 77 things in common (in Unionpedia): Acoustic impedance, Allometry, Ambulocetus, Animal, Animal echolocation, Anthracotheriidae, Archaeoceti, Baiji, Basilosaurus, Blowhole (anatomy), Blubber, Brain size, Brain-to-body mass ratio, Bubble ring, Bycatch, Cetacea, Cetacean surfacing behaviour, Cetancodontamorpha, Chevrotain, Chordate, Cochlea, Cone cell, Corneal epithelium, Decompression sickness, Dolphinarium, Dorsal fin, Encephalization quotient, Endangered species, Even-toed ungulate, False killer whale, ..., Frequency modulation, Functional extinction, Gillnetting, Harpoon, Hemoglobin, Hippopotamus, Humpback whale, Indohyus, Killer whale, Mammal, Marine pollution, Melon (cetacean), Melon-headed whale, Middle Ages, Middle ear, Moscow, Myoglobin, Ocean, Oceanic dolphin, Olfactory bulb, Order (biology), Paraphyly, Pilot whale, Pinniped, Porpoise, Protocetus, Pygmy killer whale, Pylorus, River dolphin, Rod cell, Sea, Seine fishing, Sexual dimorphism, Shark, Skull, Sperm whale, Spindle neuron, Stomach, Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, Tapetum lucidum, The Guardian, Toothed whale, United States Navy, Walking with Beasts, Whale meat, Whale vocalization, Whippomorpha. Expand index (47 more) »
Acoustic impedance
Acoustic impedance and specific acoustic impedance are measures of the opposition that a system presents to the acoustic flow resulting of an acoustic pressure applied to the system.
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Allometry
Allometry is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and finally behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932.
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Ambulocetus
Ambulocetus (meaning "walking whale") was an early cetacean with short limbs and large feet used for swimming.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals.
Animal echolocation and Dolphin · Animal echolocation and Whale ·
Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotheriidae is a family of extinct, hippopotamus-like artiodactyl ungulates related to hippopotamuses and whales.
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Archaeoceti
Archaeoceti ("ancient whales"), or Zeuglodontes in older literature, is a paraphyletic group of primitive cetaceans that lived from the Early Eocene to the late Oligocene.
Archaeoceti and Dolphin · Archaeoceti and Whale ·
Baiji
The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") is a functionally extinct species of freshwater dolphin formerly found only in the Yangtze River in China.
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Basilosaurus
Basilosaurus ("king lizard") is a genus of prehistoric cetacean that existed during the Late Eocene, 40 to 35 million years ago (mya).
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Blowhole (anatomy)
In cetology, a blowhole is the hole at the top of a cetacean's head through which the animal breathes air.
Blowhole (anatomy) and Dolphin · Blowhole (anatomy) and Whale ·
Blubber
Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians.
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Brain size
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy and evolution.
Brain size and Dolphin · Brain size and Whale ·
Brain-to-body mass ratio
Brain-to-body mass ratio, also known as the brain-to-body weight ratio, is the ratio of brain mass to body mass, which is hypothesized to be a rough estimate of the intelligence of an animal, although fairly inaccurate in many cases.
Brain-to-body mass ratio and Dolphin · Brain-to-body mass ratio and Whale ·
Bubble ring
A bubble ring, or toroidal bubble, is an underwater vortex ring where an air bubble occupies the core of the vortex, forming a ring shape.
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Bycatch
Bycatch, in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target sizes of fish, crabs etc.
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Cetacea
Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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Cetacean surfacing behaviour
Cetacean surfacing behaviour or breaching is a group of behaviours demonstrated by the Cetacea infraorder when they come to the water's surface to breathe.
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Cetancodontamorpha
Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls defined, according to Spaulding et al., as Whippomorpha "plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Whippomorpha than to any other living species".
Cetancodontamorpha and Dolphin · Cetancodontamorpha and Whale ·
Chevrotain
Chevrotains, also known as mouse-deer, are small ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, the only members of the infraorder Tragulina.
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Chordate
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.
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Cochlea
The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing.
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Cone cell
Cone cells, or cones, are one of three types of photoreceptor cells in the retina of mammalian eyes (e.g. the human eye).
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Corneal epithelium
The corneal epithelium (epithelium corneæ anterior layer) is made up of epithelial tissue and covers the front of the cornea.
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Decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (DCS; also known as divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, or caisson disease) describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurisation.
Decompression sickness and Dolphin · Decompression sickness and Whale ·
Dolphinarium
A dolphinarium is an aquarium for dolphins.
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Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.
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Encephalization quotient
Encephalization quotient (EQ) or encephalization level is a relative brain size measure that is defined as the ratio between actual brain mass and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size, which may approximate intelligence level or cognition of the species.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Even-toed ungulate
The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne equally by the third and fourth toes.
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False killer whale
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is the third-largest dolphin, a member of the oceanic dolphins.
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Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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Functional extinction
Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that.
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Gillnetting
Gillnetting is a common fishing method used by commercial and artisanal fishermen of all the oceans and in some freshwater and estuary areas.
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Harpoon
A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine hunting to catch large fish or marine mammals such as whales.
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Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin (American) or haemoglobin (British); abbreviated Hb or Hgb, is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of all vertebrates (with the exception of the fish family Channichthyidae) as well as the tissues of some invertebrates.
Dolphin and Hemoglobin · Hemoglobin and Whale ·
Hippopotamus
The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).
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Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Indohyus
Indohyus ("India's pig") is a genus of extinct digitigrade artiodactyl known from Eocene fossils in Asia.
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Killer whale
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful, effects result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural, and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms.
Dolphin and Marine pollution · Marine pollution and Whale ·
Melon (cetacean)
The melon is a mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales.
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Melon-headed whale
The melon-headed whale or melon-headed dolphin (species Peponocephala electra; other names are many-toothed blackfish, "melon whale" and electra dolphin) is a cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Middle ear
The middle ear is the portion of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the inner ear.
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Moscow
Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Myoglobin
Myoglobin (symbol Mb or MB) is an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Oceanic dolphin
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea.
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Olfactory bulb
The olfactory bulb (bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the sense of smell.
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Order (biology)
In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals that are sometimes referred to as mereswine, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales).
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Protocetus
Protocetus atavus ("first whale") is an extinct species of primitive cetacean from Egypt.
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Pygmy killer whale
The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin.
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Pylorus
The pylorus, or pyloric part, connects the stomach to the duodenum.
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River dolphin
River dolphins are a group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.
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Rod cell
Rod cells are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in less intense light than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells.
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Sea
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.
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Seine fishing
Seine fishing (or seine-haul fishing) is a method of fishing that employs a fishing net called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
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Spindle neuron
Spindle neurons, also called von Economo neurons (VENs), are a specific class of neurons that are characterized by a large spindle-shaped soma (or body), gradually tapering into a single apical axon in one direction, with only a single dendrite facing opposite.
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Stomach
The stomach (from ancient Greek στόμαχος, stomachos, stoma means mouth) is a muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates.
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Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines
Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines are field lines in a fluid flow.
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Tapetum lucidum
The tapetum lucidum (Latin: "bright tapestry; coverlet", plural tapeta lucida) is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrates.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Toothed whale
The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and sperm whales.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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Walking with Beasts
Walking with Beasts (Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North American releases) is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.
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Whale meat
Whale meat, broadly speaking, may include all cetaceans (whales, dolphions, porpoises) and all parts of the animal: muscle (meat), organs (offal), and fat (blubber).
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Whale vocalization
Whale sounds are used by whales for different kinds of communication.
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Whippomorpha
Whippomorpha is the clade containing the Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and their closest living relatives, the hippopotamuses, named by Waddell et al.
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Dolphin and Whale Comparison
Dolphin has 339 relations, while Whale has 258. As they have in common 77, the Jaccard index is 12.90% = 77 / (339 + 258).
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