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| West Indian manatee with scarring/wound from boat propellor. Image ID: 03308 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Homosassa River, Florida, USA | Rissos dolphin showing fresh scarring from social interactions with other Rissos dolphins. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04964 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04965 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04966 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04967 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04969 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| A blue whale rounds out at the surface. Note its scarred, almost totally absent dorsal fin. Offshore Coronado Islands. Image ID: 07114 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | A Rissos dolphin spyhops, lifting its head above water for a look. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07598 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | A young Rissos dolphin calf performs a tail slap. Note the dark color on this juvenile, it has yet to acquire the white scarring that distinguishes adult Rissos dolphins. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07599 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| A group of Rissos dolphin surfaces. Extensive scarring on adult Rissos dolphins allows identification of individuals based on their dorsal fins, provided the identification methodology incorporates scarring acquired in future years. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07600 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | A group of Rissos dolphin surfaces. Extensive scarring on adult Rissos dolphins allows identification of individuals based on their dorsal fins, provided the identification methodology incorporates scarring acquired in future years. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07602 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07603 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07604 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07605 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07606 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 00981 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal. Image ID: 00982 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, damaged dorsal fin. Image ID: 01155 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: Bahamas |
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| Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04968 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04970 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | A blue whales fluke is all that can be seen of the huge animal as it sinks underwater to search for food. Note the scarring near the fluke tips, likely from an attack by killer whales (orca). Offshore Coronado Islands. Image ID: 07111 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07590 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07591 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07592 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07593 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07594 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07595 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07588 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin melon and dorsal fin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 01914 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 01955 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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