National Dolphin Day - April 14th

I'm a life long lover of dolphins,have items a ring/necklace, coasters.
My sister gave me as a Xmas present one yr her needlepoint of dolphin which hangs on my living room wall
This all started when I got hooked on the 60's TV show' Flipper'
 
I like em!

Grew up calling them porpoises, that was the common term in Florida at the time. In 1975 the legislature designated the "porpoise, also commonly known as the dolphin," as the official saltwater mammal. Back then a dolphin was a fish, commonly called mahi-mahi in the Pacific.

Actually the Florida marine mammal is a dolphin, a bottlenose dolphin, and not a porpoise. Porpoises are also marine mammals, but not found in Florida. Today a lot of people in Florida call the dolphin fish a mahi-mahi. Not me, to me Flipper is still a porpoise and I occasionally fish for dolphin.
 
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