The dolphin's quieter, more reserved cousin - our printable porpoise mask celebrates one of the ocean's most fascinating and least understood small cetaceans! The harbour porpoise is Britain's smallest and most common whale species, found all around our coastline yet rarely seen. Perfect for ocean school plays, marine mammals classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and quietly impressive imaginative play.

The porpoise is a fantastic choice for British coastal wildlife and marine habitats topics - it lives right on our doorstep yet most people couldn't tell it apart from a dolphin, which makes for a brilliant classroom discussion. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Porpoises!

Porpoises and dolphins are different animals - porpoises are generally smaller, with blunt rounded heads and spade-shaped teeth, while dolphins have longer beaks and cone-shaped teeth.
The harbour porpoise is Britain's most common cetacean - it lives year-round in UK coastal waters and is frequently spotted off headlands and in estuaries, though it's much shyer than dolphins.
Porpoises have the fastest heartbeat of any cetacean - their heart can beat up to 100 times per minute when active, fuelling one of the highest metabolic rates in the mammal world.
They must eat constantly to survive - a harbour porpoise needs to consume around 10% of its body weight in fish every day, hunting almost non-stop to maintain their extraordinarily fast metabolism.
Porpoise echolocation operates at much higher frequencies than dolphin clicks - the narrow, highly focused beam is thought to make them harder for prey fish to detect, giving them a stealthy hunting advantage.

Printable Porpoise Mask

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