The animal itself
Dolphins sleep one brain hemisphere at a time, keeping one eye open. They have signature whistles functioning as names, and recognise themselves in mirrors — one of very few species that do.Symbol only · 1,600 searches a month
Dolphin
The dolphin is read as intelligence expressed as play rather than as work. It carries no birth-date range in either calendar we cover, so no date can assign it to you — it is a symbol people choose rather than one they are given.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Date range
none — not in either calendar
Searched
1,600 a month · rank 15 of 39
Neither calendar assigns dates to it, so any site that gives you them for dolphin has invented them. What the two calendars do cover →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Intelligence expressed as play rather than as work.
Honoured in: Greek myths of dolphins rescuing sailors, including the poet Arion; Minoan frescoes; Apollo took dolphin form at Delphi, which is where the name comes from.
Counted across all 39 animals
This one has no birth dates at all
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
16th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
No date can hand you this animal, because neither calendar lists it — which is worth knowing before paying for a reading that claims otherwise. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Dolphin is ranked 16 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.