The 36 dolphin species share more than a few characteristics. Among them, the aquatic mammals look like they're smiling, and they seem to love to play. All dolphins have conical-shaped teeth. A Risso's dolphin has 14 while a spinner dolphin can have 240. The orca (killer whale) is the largest dolphin. Hector's dolphin and Franciscana are two of the smallest. The four river dolphin species inhabit the large waterways of Asia and South America.
The dolphin’s hooked or curved dorsal fin (the one in the middle of the animal’s back) also differs from the porpoise’s triangular dorsal fin. Generally speaking, dolphin bodies are leaner, and porpoises’ are portly. Dolphins are also more talkative than porpoises. Dolphin, any of the toothed whales belonging to the mammal family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) as well as the families Platanistidae and Iniidae, the two that contain the river dolphins. Of the nearly 40 species of dolphins in the Delphinidae, 6 are commonly called whales, including the killer whale and the pilot whales.
Emoji Meaning
A dolphin, a sleek marine mammal known to be social and intelligent. Generally depicted as a light-blue dolphin with a white belly in full profile facing left, its short snout curving down to a prominent dorsal fin and tail, as a bottlenose dolphin leaping in the air.
May be used for various content concerning swimming, oceans, beaches, and summer fun. Not be confused with ? Shark.
WhatsApp and Facebook’s dolphins are gray, as Microsoft and Samsung’s previously were. Plex server docker.
Dolphin was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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? Dolphin
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- :dolphin:(Github, Slack, Emojipedia)
- :flipper:(Github, Slack)
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- ? Dolphin Emoji Proposal:L2/07-257,L2/09-026