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There are now four cetacean species living in or regularly visiting the busy waters east of the Golden Gate — harbor porpoises, gray whales, humpback whales and bottle-nosed dolphins.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2024

“Imagery shows a near doubling of floating mammal pens in the harbor which highly likely contain bottle-nosed dolphins.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2023

It also has five bottle-nosed dolphins and a single orca named Kiska.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

The news comes at a time when hundreds of bottle-nosed dolphins have been seen frolicking in the bay, including a large pod off Maryland’s Ragged Point last month.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2018

I assured him there were no shoals in the vicinity of the yacht; and I took up the field-glasses, and saw quite plainly that it was a bottle-nosed whale.

From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Runciman, Walter