Our ACS Fact Sheets can teach you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about 28 cetacean species, including their physical description, geographical distribution, ecology and behavior, life history, diet, conservation status, and more!
Developed by scientists and natural history experts, each fact sheet is written for the lay community and is periodically reviewed by members of the ACS Scientific Advisory Council for timeliness and accuracy. Our experts continue to develop fact sheets for additional species and update existing ones as new scientific data becomes available.
Dolphin and Porpoise Fact Pack
The Dolphin and Porpoise Fact Pack contains information sheets for 11 dolphin and porpoise species, three subject sheets, and six how-to-draw-a-dolphin sheets. Order yours here!
Species Information Sheets
- Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
- Boto, aka “Amazon River Dolphin” (Inia geoffrensis)
- Common Dolphin, Long- and Short-Beaked (Delphinus delphis and D. capensis)
- Dall’s Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
- Franciscana, aka “La Plata River Dolphin” (Pontoporia blainvillei)
- Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
- Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
- Pacific White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
- Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus)
- Spinner’s Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
- Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuate <worldwide> and S. frontalis <Atlantic>)
Subject Sheets
- About Dolphins (by Richard Ellis)
- Echolocation
- Jojoba
- Krill
Making a Difference for Cetaceans!
Whale Fact Pack
The Whale Fact Pack contains information sheets for 17 whale species, four subject sheets, and six how-to-draw whales sheets. Order yours here!
Species Information Sheets
- Baird’s Beaked Whale (Berardius bairdii)
- Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
- Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
- Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus)
- Cuvier’s Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
- Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
- Gray Whale, Eastern Gray (Eschrichtius robustus)
- Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
- Killer Whale* (Orcinus orca) * Member of the dolphin family (Delphinidae)
- Minke Whale, Common (Balaenoptera acutorostra)
- Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
- Pilot Whale, Long- and Short-Finned (Globicephala melaena and G. macrorhynchus)
- Pygmy Right Whale (Caperea marginata)
- Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps)
- Right Whale, North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern (Eubalaena glacialis, E. japonica, and E. australis)
- Sei and Bryde’s Whale (Balaenoptera borealis and B. edeni)
- Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Subject Sheets
- Baleen
- Echolocation
- Jojoba
- Krill
- Making a Difference for Cetaceans!
- Ship Strikes