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Dall's Porpoises (or True Porpoises)

Phocoenoides dalli

Average Size

Newborns: 85 to 100 cm

Adults: 7 feet

Weight: 485 lbs.

Location:

They live in the Northern North Pacific, present in the west north of Choshi and Snetral-Eastern Honshu, Japan. There are amny that can be found in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Southern Bering Sea.

In case you didn't know:

Dall's Porpoises are the fastest small cetaceans.

These porpoises can elude most preditors.

They travel in herds of 2 to 10 animals.

The Dall's Porpoise is a stocky yet powerful built animal.

This animal is found in groups as big as at least 200 hundred.

They are frequently found swimming with Pacific White-Sided Dolphins and Pilot Whales.

A female Dall's Porpoise has a calf every 3 years.

They will ride bow waves for about an hour.

These porpoises eat squid, crustaceans, saury, hake, herring, jack mackerel, and deep sea fish.

They have been thought to be capable of deep sea diving.