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Kōrero: Dolphins

Bottlenose dolphin

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Bottlenose dolphin

The bottlenose dolphin has a distinctive rounded forehead or ‘melon’, and a long, blunt beak. A dark band runs between its eyes. A piece of seaweed is floating in front of this dolphin’s beak.

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by Steve Dawson

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Gerard Hutching, Dolphins – Bottlenose dolphins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4682/bottlenose-dolphin (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gerard Hutching, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 September 2015.