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A spinner dolphin breaching. Filmed in the Pacific Ocean. From Blue Planet - Open Ocean (2001).

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Here it finally is, the full cetacean eye colour info sheet! A long time coming, and an even longer time in the making. I hope that all you cetacean eye curious people will find this one as fascinating as the killer whale eye colour post. It’s a wild world out there!

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Ea the spinner dolphin from the book POD by Laline Paull. To my knowledge, there isn't any fan art of this book yet, at least none i can easily find. Ive decided to draw Ea first and want to draw a few of the other characters eventually

Pod is a newer xenofiction oriented at adults and its kind of like watership down with dolphins and if there was like 70% more abuse going on

Ive tried to make her look as close to her description as possible (which, being a dolphin, would be easier to see if i drew a more "average" spinner dolphin as comparison) and drew the scars i remember her getting and the ones i assume she would probably have by the end, based on all that happened to her (scars ver under cut)

"All the Longi people were beautiful, but she was exceptional. […] from the long black lines around her eyes, to the flashing pearly belly marked with long glittery dashes increasing the impression of her considerable speed." "Her long rostrum […] was slightly more elongated than usual, and the rounding of the bone above the eyes, a little wider. Her eyes were precisely slanted in the outer corners, and the black line around them, a little thicker." (POD)

below is post story scarring