Tim Cope

I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.

Australian Author

Joshua Slocum

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

Canadian Explorer

Colin Mochrie

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Scottish Actor

Lewis Carroll

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

English Author

Porpoises have a rounded head and shorter beak than dolphins, a distinction significant in animal studies.

Physical Traits

Porpoises are marine mammals; they need to surface for air and are warm-blooded.

Ocean Mammals

Though similar to dolphins, porpoises are not as commonly trained for entertainment in marine parks.

Not Dolphins

Referring to someone as a 'porpoise' can be playful but also mildly insulting.

Colloquial Usage

Using 'porpoise' to describe a person is metaphorical, not about actual resemblance.

Non-literal Use

The term used this way suggests a level of friendly teasing rather than harsh criticism.

Mild Ridicule

 and mammals breathe air. Their nose can be opened and closed, as if you were to pinch it like this. You can see it's open in the bottom frame, where the red arrows are. But not all whales have two nostrils. Whales include the groups of dolphins and porpoises, and dolphins and porpoises, the small whales,

How whales breathe,...

 simpler animal more likely to take orders we can dominate this creature in a way we cannot do with same porpoises or some animal that's more known for its intelligence and the military actually had some experience trying to use animals as bombers during world war ii

The Surprising...

 I've never seen an elephant with all feet or through the hippos definitely they porpoise a lot in water then their feet come off over the floor but of course I've got the buoyancy to help them and so see ya I suppose the hippo as well that's what they always say if

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 porpoise or maybe maybe a seal would also be considered amphibious so let's call them amphibious mammals rather than aquatic ones do you want to get in for it is it necessary since all alright Cinda would like to go to infrared oh

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 Well, what is that brain good for? That brain has to outwit other big, smart brains that are trying to eat it, and that includes porpoises and seals and barracudas and sharks and even us humans.

The amazing brains and...

 That's because dolphins are one of the smartest animals species on Earth. So exactly how smart are they? Like whales and porpoises, dolphins belong to the group of aquatic mammals

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 if the hippo are related to whales now I thought that that's very bizarre what what are the chances but apparently apparently archeologists believe that the whales porpoises

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 character goes by the name of granny she may be more than 90 years old but one morning in met can encounter them very steering suddenly a group of porpoises start

Killer Whale Ears PIPE Wild...

 so is a hog in me and a fish I know I come from salt blue water gates I scurried with shoals of hearings i blue water starts with whales and porpoises

Rediscovering ourselves...

 not much remains of the porpoise after the whales are through with it