Species Profile

Cephalorhynchus

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🐾 Mammals

Blunt-nosed dolphins

The blunt-snouted dolphin dolphin ( Platalearostrum hoekmani ), also known as the balloon-headed pilot whale , is a species of pilot whale that originally lived in North Sea, Great Britain, during the Middle Pliocene through the Early Pleistocene and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced throughout the Atlantic Ocean and introduced throughout the Pacific and Indian Ocean to help boost biodiversity. The blunt-snouted dolphin is a rather large toothed whale, growing on average to be around 4 to six meters (13-19 feet) in length. Uniquely among pilot whales, it has a short spoon-shaped snout which supports a large balloon-like melon on its head, hence its name, to allow an even more advanced form of echolocation than any other species of whale. Because of its more advanced echolocation, it is much smarter than most whales, to the point that this species has an advanced culture lose to the bronze-aged humans, allowing this species to make their own tools out of stones, clam/osyter/mussel shells, etc to hunt for fish and cephalopods, not just its teeth as in most other toothed whales. The blunt-snouted dolphins have been known to domesticate some tunas and salmon in the seaweed "tents", similarly to how several bat species make leafy "tents", to keep the fish in from escaping, and the fish that have been domesticated by blunt-snouted dolphins breed quicky inside the seaweed "tents" as well as growing very quickly, while the fully-grown large fish are slaughtered by the blunt-snouted dolphins to be fed by the whales themselves. The conservation status of the blunt-snouted dolphins is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the blunt-snouted dolphin's wide range and its tolerance to most of the human activities. Unlike most other whales, the blunt-snouted dolphin is capable of speech (including English) due to its specialized vocal chords and larynx much like those of humans, and blunt-snouted dolphins are able to understand human speech and, in turn, the humans understand them. Due to this, blunt-snouted dolphins are able to cooperate with humans and have formed peace with them.

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