#Risso's

[montereybayaquarium]

Smooth moves and all the groves!

🐬 Risso’s dolphins bear scars on their bodies from toothy social interactions with their own kind, and from the beaks and tentacles of their preferred prey, squid.  

💙 We’re lucky to spot these majestic marine mammals right in our backyard—the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary.

🌊 Together we can protect their habitat by supporting measures to keep our ocean safe and healthy.

[spaceshiprocket]

Batman by Eduardo Risso

[barghest-land]

6: temnodontosaurus

[namu-the-orca]

Trick or treat!!

Treat! Thanks for being the first to come into my inbox for this event :D I wanted to make a ceta doodle and for inspiration chose a random photo from my large reference collection. It turned out to be a picture of a Risso's dolphin who'd lost part of their dorsal fin to a killer whale. It's a photo that has always intrigued me - as do others of a similar nature. What luck they had to escape with their life. And I wonder if they ever think back to that moment? That haunting feeling was something I wanted to capture. It turned into a biiiittt more than just a quick doodle lol but I really love the end result.

The one who got away

Her teeth marked my fin And took a part away A small offer for my life She haunts me anyway

[comiced]

Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #1 (2024)

Jeph Loeb | Eduardo Risso

[ungoliantschilde]

paintings by Eduardo Risso.

[inatungulates]

Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus

Observed by laurreid, CC BY-NC

This Risso's dolphin calf must be very young. The deep creases along its flanks are fetal folds, which are produced by the calf lying curled inside its mother's womb. Fetal folds fade over the first several weeks of life and are completely gone sometime in the first few months. A close look at the little calf's upper jaw shows a series of small bumps; these are the follicles for its whiskers! In most (but not all) species of cetacean, these wispy hairs are lost even before the fetal folds fade, in only the first few days or weeks of life.

Notice also the much darker, unmarked appearance of the calf compared to its mother. Adult Risso's dolphins become paler as they age, but this natural lightening is helped along substantially by the development of a dense network of scars that are produced by the rather large teeth of other Risso’s dolphins, which regularly rake each other in routine social interactions. Tooth-raking is a completely normal part of social behavior in most toothed cetacean species, but Risso’s dolphins take it to an extreme not found in others, so it must play an outsized role in their social signaling to one another, compared to other dolphins.

[respect-the-locals]

🐬 Daily Cetacean Fact: 🐬

Risso's Dolphin: Risso's dolphins have a stratified social organisation. These dolphins typically travel in groups of between 10 and 51, but can sometimes form "super-pods" reaching up to a few thousand individuals. Smaller, stable subgroups exist within larger groups. These groups tend to be similar in age or sex. Long-term bonds are seen to correlate with adult males. Younger individuals experience less fidelity and can leave and join groups. Mothers show a high fidelity towards a group of mother and calves, but it is unclear whether or not these females stay together after their calves leave or remain in their natal pods.

[artverso]

Eduardo Risso - Wonder Woman

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Apocalypse Now (1979) Poster by Eduardo Risso

[curtvilescomic]

Blade runner by Eduardo Risso 

[cainhowlett]

The final scanned image to a project that spanned more than a year in the making. The end feels happy and sad, but also freeing to return to a backlog of other ideas.

The seal with the spots is based on one I swim with up here, a nod.

[spaceshiprocket]

Captain America and the Red Skull by Eduardo Risso

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Blade Runner - art by Eduardo Risso

[wwprice1]

Fantastic art from Last Halloween #1.

[daredevil-artwork]

Daredevil vs The Punisher by Eduardo Risso