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Differences Between Dolphins and Porpoises

Sep 21, 2019
by Verity Tonge
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boat survey, bottlenose dolphin, cardigan bay, cardigan bay monitoring project, dolphin, dolphins, dolphins & porpoises, education, Harbour porpoise, porpoise, porpoises, sighting, survey, wales
Porpoises are often confused with dolphins as being one and the same when in fact they don’t have as much in common as people might think.  Dolphins and porpoises are both air-breathing, warm blooded marine mammals and they both belong to the same scientific order Cetacea. They are fu
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