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Apparently today is World Dolphin Day. I remember during the mid 1960's, a television program called Flipper became a popular success for several seasons. A rather charming show where two boys in Florida had all kinds of fun adventures with their adopted friend dolphin. Kind of cute how they seemed to understand and communicate so extensively. It sparked quite a lot of interest how intelligent these mammals are and being somewhat parallel to that of primates. Scientists have differing opinions concerning this of course, but it does appear the bottlenose dolphin does have a lot of smarts. A day for the dolphins We're celebrating World Dolphin Day with a small pod of pantropical spotted dolphins. Award-winning photographer Christian Vizl captured this serene scene off the coast of Ixtapa, Mexico, where these cetaceans can be, er, spotted in abundance. As their name would suggest, pantropical spotted dolphins live in tropical and subtropical waters around the world. They're the second-most common dolphin after the bottlenose and grow between 6 and 7 feet long. That may seem big if you were swimming next to one, but it's really pretty small compared with the big kahuna of the dolphin family—the orca. Orca bulls can be up to 32 feet long and tip the scales at 11 tons. Let's all take a moment today to spread the love of dolphins big and small and recognize their importance to our ecosystem.
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