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a brain in a wetsuit that sleeps with one eye open and bullies for sport
means A highly intelligent marine mammal of the toothed whale family, known for its sleek body, beak-like snout, and playful, social behavior.
from From Old French 'daulphin', from Latin 'delphinus', borrowed from Greek 'delphis' — a word a cousin of 'delphys', meaning 'womb', as if the ancients saw it as 'the fish with a womb', clocking that this was no ordinary fish but a creature that bore live young like themselves.
- half-asleep
- shuts down one brain hemisphere at a time
- named names
- each uses a signature whistle as a name
- dark side
- known to harass and kill porpoises for fun
- echolocation
- sees fish through sand using sound
- self-aware
- recognizes itself in mirrors, rare in animals
for instance
flipper — tv series dolphin character (1964-1968), starred in 88 episodes
miami dolphins — nfl team founded in 1966, won super bowl vii in 1973
fungie — wild bottlenose dolphin in dingle bay, ireland since 1983