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Māui dolphin, Maui's dolphin, or Popoto (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) is a subspecies of the Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori)—New Zealand's only endemic cetacean. [3] Māui dolphins are only found off the west coast of New Zealand 's North Island , and are now one of the rarest and smallest dolphin subspecies globally.
The Vancouver Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility. [1] It replaces the Crystal Pool at Sunset Beach that was opened in 1928 and was demolished in 1974. [2] A contract to renew the facility was let in 2023 and the project is expected to take seven years to complete. [3]
The 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships were held from 27 to 31 August 2014 in Maui, Hawaii, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Pool competition was conducted in a long course (50 metre) pool at Kihei Aquatic Center in Kihei, Hawaii and the open water marathons were contested at Ulua Beach in Wailea, Hawaii .
Encounter between a solitary wild dolphin and human children in 1967. Educational anthropologist Dr. Betsy Smith of Florida International University is usually credited with starting the first line of research into dolphin-assisted therapy in 1971, building on earlier research by American neuroscientist Dr. John Lilly on interspecies communication between dolphins and humans in the 1950s. [11]
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Dolphinarium in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, Dutch newsreel from 1966. Though cetaceans have been held in captivity in both North America and Europe by 1860—Boston Aquarial Gardens in 1859 and pairs of beluga whales in Barnum's American Museum in New York City museum— [3] [4] dolphins were first kept for paid entertainment in the Marine Studios dolphinarium founded in 1938 in St. Augustine ...
Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) is one of four dolphin species belonging to the genus Cephalorhynchus.Hector's dolphin is the only cetacean endemic to New Zealand, and comprises two subspecies: C. h. hectori, the more numerous subspecies, also referred to as South Island Hector's dolphin; and the critically endangered Māui dolphin (C. h. maui), found off the West Coast of the North ...
Mike Spalding (born 1947) is a marathon swimmer, and one of only two people to have swum all nine channels of the main Hawaiian Islands. [1] He lives on Maui.. On March 16, 2009 Spalding became one of the few humans to be attacked by the deep water cookiecutter shark.