This beautiful green and yellow Dorado or Mahi-Mahi plush toy stuffed animal is made by Cabin Critters.
Also known as the Dorado or Dolphin, (Coryphaena hippurus), feeds on flying fishes. These often take to the air to escape, and the dorado has been described as flushing them like quail. Their flight into another element may frequently be to no avail, for the dorado often swims as fast as a flying fish can fly, and snaps up the hapless creature when it drops back into the water. The fastest accurate estimate we have of the dorado's speed is a little more than thirty-seven miles per hour, as measured from a moving ship. While in pursuit of prey, the dorado often leaps from the water itself.
Like a brilliantly colored knife, this fish cuts through the water, its narrow, long, triangular body being well designed to offer little water resistance. Its powerful tail is tipped with a deeply forked caudal fin, and along the whole back runs a soft, many-rayed dorsal. Larger specimens, especially males, have very high foreheads that may rise almost perpendicular to the long axis of the body. They make up a family of their own, the Coryphaenidae.
Dorados are renowned for their coloration. A group of them can fill the water with electric blue flashes, it has been said. Luminous blues, royal purples, radiant greens and rich gold are all incorporated into their color scheme. Soon after capture, the vivid colors fade.
The dorado, or Mahi-Mahi, is a popular gamefish. Mahi-mahi is a Hawaiian term meaning very strong. The largest one ever caught on hook-and-line weighed 88 pounds.
The Mahi-Mahi is an oceanic fish that is found in most warm seas. On the Atlantic coast of the United States it ranges as far north as Cape Cod and on the Pacific it is found off California. They spawn in warm ocean currents during the year and their young are found among seaweed. They have a life span of 4 to 5 years.
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Class: Actinopterygii | Order: Perciformes | Family: Coryphaenidae
