Dolphin

However, they seem to lack a well-developed sense of smell, but they most likely can taste and do show preferences for certain kinds of fish. Belgian Second Division. The dolphin's sense of touch is also well-developed. League Two. Hearing is also used for echolocation which seems to be an ability all dolphins have. League One. Though they have a small ear opening on each side of their head it is believed hearing underwater is also if not exclusively done with the lower jaw which conducts the vibrations to the middle ear via a fat filled cavity in the lower jaw bone. League Championship.

Most dolphins have acute eyesight both in and out of the water and their sense of hearing is far above our own. Premier League. Compare also: whale behavior. As of February 1, 2006. She most likely died of self induced asphyxiation in the presence of her trainer Richard O'Barry.[1]. Although the full effects of Glazer's takeover on the club's support are not yet known, the club has claimed a record number of season ticket sales, however, given the many empty seats in the ground in some European games and lack of freedom of information from the club, this is as yet unverified. Probably one of the best known cases of dolphin suicide is that of a dolphin named Cathy, one of the bottlenose dolphins that performed in the television series Flipper. The new club plays in the North West Counties League Second Division, and attracts an average attendance of almost 3000.

They either do so by repeatedly slamming their head against the pool walls or other solid objects or simply by not coming up for air anymore. United of Manchester. In captivity, many dolphins seem to have committed suicide. Many supporters were outraged, and some formed a new club called F.C. The technology to use sponges as mouth protection is not genetically inherited but a taught cultural behaviour. However, this scheme failed to prevent Malcolm Glazer from becoming the majority shareholder in the club. Other than with primate simians, the knowledge to use a tool is mostly handed over only from mothers to daughters. Another pressure group, Shareholders United Against Murdoch (which became Shareholders United and is now the Manchester United Supporters Trust) was formed at around this time to encourage supporters to buy shares in the club, partly to enable supporters to have a greater say in the issues that concern them, such as ticket prices and allocation, and partly to reduce the risk of an unwanted party buying enough shares to take over the club.

The animals break off sponges and put them onto their mouths thus protecting the delicate body part during their hunt for fish on the seabed. The supporters’ group IMUSA (Independent Manchester United Supporters' Association) were extremely active in opposing a proposed takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1999. In May 2005, researchers in Australia discovered a cultural aspect of dolphin behaviour: Some dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) teach their offspring to use a tool. In the late 1990s and early part of the 2000s, an increasing source of concern for many United supporters was the possibility of the club being taken over. Such military dolphins, however, drew scrutiny during the Vietnam War when rumors circulated that dolphins were being trained to kill Vietnamese Skin Divers. The club estimates they have 675 million fans around the world, with 80 million fans in Asia alone. The military has employed dolphins for various purposes from finding mines to rescuing lost or trapped persons. A 2002 report, Do You Come From Manchester? indicate that Manchester City, have a higher proportion of season ticket holders living in the Manchester area, althogh they sold fewer season tickets overall.

Dolphin/Human interaction is also employed in a curative sense at places where dolphins work with autistic or otherwise disabled children. This swelled United’s support and is one reason why United have had the highest league attendances in English football for almost every season since then, even as a second division side in 1974-75. Dolphins trained to perform in front of an audience have become a favorite attraction in dolphinaria, for example SeaWorld. Following the Munich air disaster in 1958, more people from outside Manchester began to support United and, as travel became quicker and cheaper, many started to go to matches. Because of their high capacity for learning, dolphins have been employed by humans for any number of purposes. When United won the league in 1956, they had the highest average home attendance in the league, a record that had been held by Newcastle for the previous few years. This leads to them staying with injured or ill fellows for support. After the war, a stronger rivalry developed and it became more common for a supporter to choose one team to follow exclusively.

However, the animals can establish strong bonds between each other. As United and City played home matches on alternate Saturdays, many Mancunians would watch United one week and City the next. Membership in schools is not rigid; interchange is common. Before the Second World War, few English football supporters travelled to away games because of the time and cost. They also use ultrasonic sounds for echolocation. The Glazers have promised that Sir Alex Ferguson will still be able to purchase "big-name" players. The individuals communicate using a variety of clicks, whistles and other vocalizations. Some United fans have expressed concern that in the fallout from the Glazer takeover, which left the club £265 million in debt, Manchester United will no longer have the money to compete in the transfer market with the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea.

In places with a high abundance of food, schools can join temporarily, forming an aggregation called a superpod; such groupings may exceed 1000 dolphins. On 7 June he appointed his sons Joel, Avram, and Bryan to the board with Joel becoming Exectuive Co Chairman, Avram Non Exective Co Chairman and Bryan a Non Executive Director, at the same time Sir Roy Gardner resigned the chairmanship, and two other non-executive directors resigned. Dolphins are social animals, living in pods (also called "schools") of up to a dozen animals. On May 16, he increased his share to the 75% necessary to delist the club from the Stock Exchange, taking it private again, and announced his intention to do so within 20 days. There are many stories of dolphins protecting shipwrecked sailors against sharks by swimming circles around the swimmers. On May 12, 2005, the United States businessman Malcolm Glazer acquired a controlling interest in the club in a takeover valuing it at approximately £800 million ($1.47 billion). In return, in some cultures like in Ancient Greece they were treated with welcome; a ship spotting dolphins riding in their wake was considered a good omen for a smooth voyage.
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They are also famous for their willingness to occasionally approach humans and playfully interact with them in the water. United made a poor start to the 2005-06 season, with team captain Roy Keane leaving the club to join his boyhood heroes Celtic after publicly criticising several of his teammates, and the club failed to qualify for the knock-out phase of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a decade. Frequently dolphins will accompany boats, riding the bow waves. Off the pitch, the main story was the possibility of the club being taken over and at the end of the season, Tampa businessman Malcolm Glazer acquired a controlling interest in the club. They have even been seen harassing other creatures, like seabirds and turtles. Cup eluded them — although they completely outplayed Arsenal in one of the most one-sided finals ever seen they were beaten on penalties. Play is a very important part of dolphins' lives and they can often be observed playing with seaweed or playfighting with other dolphins. This time, even the "consolation prize" of the F.A.

Perhaps they just do it for fun. The 2004-05 season was characterised by a failure to score goals, mainly due to the injury of striker Ruud van Nistelrooy and United finished the season trophyless and in third place in the league. They could also be communicating to other dolphins to join a hunt, or attempting to dislodge parasites. Cup, however, knocking out Arsenal (that season's eventual champions) on their way to the final. Scientists aren't quite certain about the purpose of this behavior, but it may be to locate schools of fish by looking at above water signs, like feeding birds. They did win the 2004 F.A. the spinner dolphin). They regained the league the following season (2002-03) and started the following season well, but their form dropped significantly when Rio Ferdinand received an eight month suspension for missing a drugs test.

Dolphins often leap above the water surface, sometimes performing acrobatic figures (e.g. Ferguson adopted more defensive tactics to make United harder to beat in Europe but it was not a success and United finished the season in third place in 2002. See the Dolphin intelligence article for more details. United won the league by record margins in 2000 and 2001 but the press saw these seasons as failures as they failed to regain the European Cup. Straightforward comparisons of species' relative intelligence are complicated by differences in sensory apparatus, response modes, and nature of cognition; furthermore, the difficulty and expense of doing experimental work with a large marine animal mean that even such tests as can meaningfully be done have still not been done, or have been carried out with inadequate sample size and methodology. Ferguson was knighted for his contributions to British football as a result. However, experts in comparative psychology or animal cognition would be reluctant to make any such estimate, as quantitative comparisons of intelligence between species are notoriously difficult to make in principle. (See The Treble for an explanation of different types of "Treble" or Manchester United Treble for a more in-depth look at the 1998-1999 season.) The final of the Champions League, widely regarded as the one of the greatest finals ever, was especially exciting as United were trailing 1-0 with one minute to go, but two goals in stoppage time gave them a win over Bayern Munich (The only team ever to have come from behind to win a Champions League final in normal time.) The club's first choice central-midfielders, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes, missed the match through suspension.

A typical statement would be that dolphins are roughly as intelligent as a two-year-old human. 1998-99 was the most successful season in the club's history as United became the first English team to win The Treble - the league, the FA Cup and the Champions League in the same season. Dolphins are widely believed to be amongst the most intelligent of all animals. They started the following season (1997-98) well but their results were affected by a series of injuries and they finished the season in second place, behind the double winning champions Arsenal. See individual species articles for details. They won the league in 1997, and Eric Cantona, announced his retirement from football at the age of 30, several years earlier than most players. It is often combined with lines and patches of different hue and contrast. Ferguson then outraged the supporters by selling key players and replacing them with players from the club's youth team, but the new players, several of whom quickly became regular internationals, did surprisingly well and United won the double again in 1995-96.

The basic coloration patterns are shades of gray with a light underside and a distinct dark cape on the back. Drawing their last league match and losing to Everton in the FA Cup final left United as runners-up in both the league and FA Cup. The dolphin brain is large and has a highly structured cortex, which often is referred to in discussions about their high intelligence. In 1994-95, Cantona received an eight month suspension for jumping into the crowd and assulting Crystal Palace supporter Matthew Simmons. Teeth can be very numerous (up to 250) in several species. They won the double (the league and the FA Cup) for the first time the following season, but legendary manager and club president Matt Busby died that year, on 20 January 1994. In many species, the jaws are elongated, forming a distinct beak; for some species like the Bottlenose, there is a curved mouth that looks like a fixed smile. The arrival of Eric Cantona in November 1992 provided the crucial spark for United, and they finished the 1992-93 season as Champions for the first time since 1967.

The head contains the melon, a round organ used for echolocation. Meanwhile in 1991 the club had floated on the London Stock Exchange with a valuation of £18 million, thus bringing its finances into the public eye as never before. Dolphins have a fusiform body, adapted for fast swimming. United won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1990-91, beating that season's Spanish champions Barcelona in the final, but the following season was a disappointment for United as a late season slump saw them miss out on the league to rivals Leeds United. See evolution of cetaceans for the details. There was speculation that Ferguson would be sacked at the beginning of 1990 but a win in the third round of the FA Cup over Nottingham Forest kept the season alive and United went on to win the competition. They entered the water roughly 50 million years ago. However, United struggled badly throughout 1989, with many of Ferguson's signings not reaching the expectations of the fans.

Modern dolphin skeletons have two small rod shaped pelvic bones thought to be left-over hind legs. The following season (1987-88), United finished second, with Brian McClair becoming the first United player since George Best to score twenty league goals in a season. Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are descendants of land-living mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order. Alex Ferguson replaced Atkinson and guided the club to an 11th place finish. See also wolphin. The poor form continued into the following season, and with United on the edge of the First Division's relegation zone, Atkinson was sacked. There has also been a reported hybrid between a beluga and a narwhal. The team's form collapsed, however, and United finished the season in fourth place.

Dall's Porpoises and Harbour Porpoises have hybridized in the wild. United won the FA Cup in 1983 and 1985 and were overwhelming favourites to win the league in the 1985-86 season after winning their first ten league games, opening a ten-point gap over their rivals as early as October. Blue Whales, Fin Whales and Humpback Whales all hybridize in the wild. Atkinson's team featured new signings such as Jesper Olsen and Gordon Strachan playing alongside the former youth-team players Norman Whiteside and Mark Hughes. In the wild, bands of males of one dolphin species have been observed to mate with lone female Spinners. He was replaced by the flamboyant Ron Atkinson who immediately broke the British record transfer fee to sign Bryan Robson from West Brom. In the wild, Spinner Dolphins have sometimes hybridised with Spotted Dolphins and Bottlenose Dolphins. This style was unpopular with supporters, who were used to the attacking football preferred by Docherty and Busby, and after failing to win a trophy Sexton was sacked in 1981.

In captivity, a Bottlenose Dolphin and a Rough-Toothed Dolphin produced hybrid offspring. Dave Sexton replaced Docherty as manager in the summer of 1977, and made the team play in a more defensive formation. This mating has since been repeated in captivity and a hybrid calf was born. In spite of this success, and his popularity with the supporters, Docherty was sacked soon after the final when he was found to have had an affair with the physiotherapist's wife. In 1933, three strange dolphins were beached off the Irish coast; these appeared to be hybrids between Risso's Dolphin and the Bottlenose Dolphin. They reached the final again in 1977, beating Liverpool and preventing their opponents from completing the first ever treble, which United would go on to win in 1999. They are sometimes called "blackfish":. The team won promotion at the first attempt and reached the FA Cup final in 1976, but were beaten by Southampton.

Six animals in the family Delphinidae are commonly called "whales" but are strictly speaking dolphins. Docherty, or 'the Doc', saved United from relegation that season but United were relegated in 1974. . United struggled to replace Busby, and the team struggled under Wilf McGuinness and Frank O'Farrell before Tommy Docherty became manager at the end of 1972. The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene. Busby resigned as manager in 1969 and was replaced by the reserve-team coach and former United player Wilf McGuinness. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and all are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. This team was notable for containing three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.

Most species weigh about 50 to 200 kg (110 to 440 lb). The team won the FA Cup in 1963, then won the league in 1965 and 1967 and the European Cup in 1968, the first English Club to do so. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (88 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (the Orca). Busby rebuilt the team throughout the early 1960s, signing players such as Denis Law and Pat Crerand. There are almost 40 species of dolphin in 17 genera. They somehow reached the FA Cup final again, where they lost to Bolton. Orcas and some related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even though they are called whales in common language. There was talk of the club folding but, with Jimmy Murphy taking over as manager while Matt Busby recovered from his injuries, the club continued playing with a makeshift side.

Porpoises (suborder Odontoceti, family Phocoenidae) are thus not dolphins in our sense. The Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958 claimed the lives of eight players and another fifteen passengers. In this article, the second definition is used. Tragedy struck the following season, when the plane carrying the team home from a European Cup match crashed on take off at a refuelling stop in Munich. It can mean:. They also became the first English team to compete in the European Cup, and reached the semi-final. The word is used in a few different ways. The following season, they won the league again and reached the FA Cup final, losing to Aston Villa.

"a 'fish' with a womb". He adopted a policy of bringing in players from the youth team whenever possible, and the team won the league in 1956 with an average age of only 22. The name is from Ancient Greek δελφίς delphis meaning "with a womb", viz. He was immediately successful, with the club finishing second in the league in 1947 and winning the FA Cup in 1948. Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises. Matt Busby was appointed manager in 1945 and took a then-unheard of approach to his job, joining the players for training as well as performing administrative tasks. In the William Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic and the film by the same name (starring Keanu Reeves), cyborg dolphins were used in war-time by the military to find submarines and, after the war, by a group of revolutionaries to decode encrypted information. The team struggled between the first and second world wars, and by time the second world war began they were £70,000 in debt.

One of the mates of the ship is named Akeakamai, in honor of the real-life dolphin from Louis Herman's animal language research. They won the Championship for the second time in 1911. In the book Startide Rising by author David Brin, the spaceship Streaker is manned by neo-dolphins (dolphins genetically engineered to match human intelligence). Then with financial assistance from Davies, United moved from Bank Street to a new stadium at Old Trafford in 1910. In one scene, the dolphins' misbehavior elicits the following quote from Zissou: "Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.". With their new name, they won the league in 1908 and the FA Cup on April 26, 1909 against Bristol City at Crystal Palace. In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, marine researcher Zissou (played by Bill Murray) has trained reconaissance dolphins which apparently are temperamental and rarely follow their instructions. Davies who paid off the club's debts and changed the name to Manchester United, changing the team's colours from gold and green to red and white.

In seaQuest DSV and seaQuest 2032, Darwin the dolphin could communicate with English speakers using a vocoder, an invention that translated the clicks and whistles to English and back. The club faced bankruptcy in 1902 and was rescued by J.H. Mike and the 'Bots then quickly apoligize. The earliest known film of Manchester United is the 2–0 victory at Burnley on 6 December 1902, filmed by Mitchell and Kenyon. While doing so, the SOL gets blasted by a ship that turns out to be piloted by dolphins. They were founder members of the Football Alliance in 1889 and joined the Football League in 1892 when it merged with the Football Alliance. In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Devil Fish," Mike and the 'Bots mock dolphins. The name was soon shortened to Newton Heath.

Their logo depicts an aqua-colored bottlenose dolphin wearing an American football helmet and jumping in front of a coral-colored sunburst. The club were formed as Newton Heath (Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway) (Newton Heath (L&YR) for short) by a group of Manchester railway workers in 1878. An American National Football League (NFL) team is named the Miami Dolphins. Manchester was founded by someone who cheats!! All they can do is cheat! Van Nistlerooy stop diving save that for swimming!. A book called 'The Music of Dolphins' was written by Karen Hesse, about a girl who had lived with dolphins since the age of four. . Ecco the Dolphin stars in a series of games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear, Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. An attempted takeover by Rupert Murdoch had been blocked by the British Government in 1999, but in 2005 Malcolm Glazer completed a hostile takeover of the club, despite considerable protests from many of United's supporters.

After study at the Dolphins Plus research center in Key Largo, Florida, fantasy author Ken Grimwood wrote dolphins into his 1995 novel Into the Deep, including entire chapters written from the viewpoint of his dolphin characters. The club had been run as a Public Limited Company since 1991, and a takeover was a real possiblility. Their story is told in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. In 1999, Manchester United became the first team to win the FA Premier League, the FA Cup and the European Cup in the same season — a record that has still not been equalled. However, their behavior was misinterpreted as playful acrobatics. The club did not see great success again until the 1990s and early 2000s, when Sir Alex Ferguson guided them to eight league championships in eleven years. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dolphins are the most intelligent creatures on Earth and tried in vain to warn humans of the impending destruction of the planet. It was thought that the club might fold, but once Busby had recovered from his injuries he built another great team which went on to win the football league in 1965 and 1967, and became the first English winners of the European Cup in 1968.

The television show was based on a 1963 film, and remade as a feature film in 1996 starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan (actor), as well as a television series running from 1995-2000 starring Jessica Alba. This success was halted by the Munich air disaster of 1958, in which eight of the club's players died. The popular television show Flipper, created by Ivan Tors, portrayed a dolphin in a friendly relationship with two boys, Sandy and Bud; a kind of sea going Lassie, Flipper understood English unusually well and was a marked hero: "Go tell Dad we're in trouble, Flipper! Hurry!" The show's theme song contains the lyric no one you see / is smarter than he. United appointed Sir Matt Busby as manager after the Second World War, and his then-unheard-of policy of producing most of the players through the club's youth team brought great success, with the club winning the Football League in 1956 and 1957. Foraging - A recent study reported that wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops) in Western Australia use sponges to forage in the sea bed for food.[2]. Davies who changed its name to Manchester United. Stunning - using the echolocation melon, very loud clicks are directed at prey, stunning them. After nearing bankuptcy in 1902, the club was taken over by J.H.

Fish Wacking - where the dolphin uses its fluke to strike the fish, stunning it and sometimes sending it clear out of the water. The club was formed as Newton Heath (L & Y.R.) F.C. in 1878 as the works team of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath. Corralling - where fish are chased to shallow water where they are more easily captured. The club has had the highest average attendance in English football for the majority of the past fifty seasons. Herding - where a superpod will control a school of fish while individual members take turns plowing through the herd, feeding. The club is one of the most successful clubs in England, having won the FA Premier League/Football League fifteen times, FA Cup eleven times and the European Cup/UEFA Champions League twice. Short-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus. Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at Old Trafford Football Ground located just outside of the city boundaries of Manchester, Lancashire.

Long-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas. Most points in a season: 92 1993/94. False Killer Whale, Psudoorca crassidens. Most League Goals in a season; 103 1956/57, 1958/59. Pygmy Killer Whale, Feresa attenuata. Longest unbeaten Run : (All competitions) 45, December 24, 1998 to October 3, 1999. Killer Whale, Orcinus orca. Record Attendance Old Trafford: 76,962, Wolves v Grimsby Town, FA Cup, semi-final, 25 March 1939.

Melon-headed Whale, Peponocephalia electra. Record 'home' League Attendance: Maine Road 83,250 v Arsenal, Division 1, 7 January 1948. La Plata Dolphin (Franciscana), Pontoporia blainvillei. Record League Attendance: Old Trafford 70,504 v Aston Villa, Division 1, 27 December 1920. Genus Pontoporia