Amazing Facts about Dolphins
"There are some amazing facts
about dolphins..."
* A dolphin eats about 5% of its body weight in food every day.
* Female bottlenose dolphins live longer than males.
* Dolphins are very playful animals and play is an important part of their communication.
* They are friendly to each other. Only males may sometimes fight during the breeding season, but those fights are short and seldom very serious.
* Older dolphins emit calming sounds to resolve a conflict.
* Dolphins are known for altruism - willingness to help others even if they put their own life at risk.
* They have been known to resque humans from sharks, and resquing drowning humans, by taking them to shallow waters.
* They also follow their injured pod members to the beach in hope to be able to help them, and become stranded.
* Some bottlenose dolphins are solitary and they may form amazing close bonds with humans.
* Bottlenose dolphins are amazing imitators. They can imitate noises of other creatures.
* Captive bottlenose dolphins are known to imitate their trainers. Some have started moving their mouths while making noises, which they normally don't. They were imitating the way the trainer's lips moved when he talked.
* They can cooperate with fishermen, helping to drive fish to shallower waters, and also benefiting from the fish that gets out of the nets.
* Not only captive dolphins that are trained, but wild dolphins can put on amazing synchronized displays, breaching, lobtailing, and moving their flippers exactly together like a pair of synchronized dancers. It is a mysetery how they can do it, and not really clear why they do it.
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