Dolphin physical description
The dolphin has average size is range from a pound to 15, occasionally 20. Larger fish are loners or paired up as a bull (male) and cow (female). The biggest bulls commonly reach 50 pounds and rarely exceed 70. Largest cows reach 40 pounds. State record is 77 pounds, 12 ounces.
The dolphin is the wood duck of pelagic fishes, so spectacularly colorful that it seems impossible it could have evolved by accident. The back and head are iridescent, glowing neon blue and chartreuse
green. The sides and belly are gold, sprinkled with bright blue spots. In fact, biologists say the fish's