Maui’s Dolphin

  • The Naming of Things: Hector’s and Maui’s Dolphins

    A decent rule of thumb when investigating the naming of things is that when a species’ common name is capitalized then it’s usually named after either a person or a place. So, in the case of the Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins this seems like an open and shut case: Some scientist named Hector discovered the…