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Interspecies Adoptions

May 29, 2021

by Claudia Afeltra

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Adopt A Dolphin, adoptions, beluga whale, Bottlenose dolphins, calves, education, intern, interspecies, melon-headed whale, Narwhal, Pilot whales, Sperm whales

News has surfaced from New Zealand this month of an unusual interspecies occurrence. A female bottlenose dolphin has been found to have seemingly adopted a very young pilot whale calf. Although unusual, this is not the first reported case of interspecies adoptions, and we will cover s

A melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin produced the first ever ‘whale-dolphins.’

Aug 26, 2018

by John Scoggins

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dolphins, Hawaii, hybrid, melon-headed whale, Rough-toothed dolphin, Whales

A group of Marine Biologists at Cascadia Research Collective, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii, claim that a new cetacean species received immediate attraction as these ‘whale-dolphins’ are a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin. A hybrid male inher

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Interspecies Adoptions

A melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin produced the first ever ‘whale-dolphins.’

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