"dolphin" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun when referring to a sea mammal, or a verb when describing the action of leaping out of the water. Example: We watched in awe as the dolphins leapt out of the water in perfect harmony.
At a meeting in August Waza suggested a two-year moratorium on dolphin drive hunts, but this was rejected by Jaza, Waza said.
A fully trained dolphin on public display can be worth more than $100,000, compared with as little as $100 if butchered for meat.
#icj #whaling — Tim (nice but dim) (@timbothetim) March 31 , 2014@GreenpeaceUK Great news.. Now to stop Japan whaling in North Pacific and the dolphin drives.
Sally Hamilton, a marine biologist and director of Orca, a charity devoted to whale and dolphin protection, said: "Numerous boats wouldn't be something they were used to.
In a world where even the Tory prime minister's wife has been gunned with an ankle dolphin, you might think that an absence of ink was more identifiable than a lack of it.
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Waza) is being taken to a Swiss court by conservationists who accuse it of misleading conduct over its stance on the Taiji dolphin hunts, which gained global attention through the documentary The Cove.
When trying to end a furious stand-off between tuna fishermen and dolphin-lovers, he posed with Flipper, a Bottlenose film star, to reassure the public that he cared.
It has more of a dolphin-like nose than its prototype and more windows.
And then comes whaling and dolphin-slaying, where the cultural gap with much of the Western world appears at its widest.
Into the lives of the Sundarban islanders come, separately, two outsiders: Kanai Dutt, an urbane middle-aged but single man from Delhi, and Piya Roy, a beautiful young dolphin-watcher from America.
An internationally recognised certification scheme, along the lines of dolphin-friendly tuna, is urgently needed to alert consumers to the sustainability (or otherwise) of the farmed fish that they are eating.
