spinner dolphin

noun

spinner dolphin

noun

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A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).

Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:

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