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SpeciesCetaceaDelphinidae
Marine mammals

🐬Irrawaddy dolphin

Orcaella brevirostris (Owen, 1866)

Irrawaddy yunusu (Orcaella brevirostris) Güneydoğu Asya ve Bengal Körfezi'nin bir kısmında nehirlerde, haliçlerde ve deniz kıyıları yakınlarında aralıklı olarak küçük popülasyon grupları hâlinde yaşayan bir örihalin okyanus yunusu türüdür.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Irrawaddy River Dolphin, Irrawady Dolphin, Snub-fin Dolphin, Snubfin Dolphin
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
190 kg
Body length
2.63 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Everything we know about the Irrawaddy dolphin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
190 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 190 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
2.63 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.75 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 30 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
15 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
5.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
1.2 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.2 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
37 per km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
190 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Irrawaddy dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.1 million years ago.
What it eats
fish60%
insects and other invertebrates40%
In other languages
Irawadidelfin (de), Orcaella brevirostris (es), Dauphin de l'Irrawaddy (fr), Oreczka krótkogłowa (pl), 강거두고래 (ko), kúposfejű delfin (hu) … and 22 more languages
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