- National Dolphin Day is celebrated every year on 5 October in India.
- The announcement of celebrating National Dolphin Day was made by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest, Environment and Climate Change in March 2022.
- Thus the second National Dolphin Day is being celebrated in the year 2023.
- Dolphin was declared the national animal in the year 2009 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- The scientific name of dolphin is Platanista gangetica.
- The Ganges dolphin is one of the five main species of dolphin found in the world’s rivers.
- The dolphin is listed as ‘endangered’ in the IUCN Red List.
