Interesting Facts about Bottlenose Dolphins
"There are
some interesting
facts about
bottlenose dolphins."
* Bottlenose Dolphins are some of the largest dolphins.
* But their size vary a fair bit depending on where they live.
* The largest bottlenose dolphins are about twice the length of full-grown humans, and weigh about seven times as much as an average adult human.
* Larger dolphins live in cooler waters, while smaller individuals tend to live in warmer waters and coastal areas.
* Advantages of larger bodies include having it easier to keep warm, and being able to store more oxygen and thus dive deeper.
* Adaptations to a life in water include blubber, blowholes and streamlined bodies.
* Blubber is a layer of fat under the skin, which helps whales and dolphins to keep warm, since they don't have fur or hair as do most land mammals.
* Bottlenose dolphins have good sense of hearing, taste and touch. Its eyesight is good compared to many other dolphins, but not as good as the eyesight of most land animals'. Its taste of smell is not very good.
* Like other whales and dolphins, bottle noses spyhop, breach, lobtail, flipper, and put on other surfacing displays.
* Surfacing is thought to be done for communication, to have a look across the water, and sometimes to herd fish.
* Other forms of communication bottle noses have is making different sounds, and rubbing and touching each other.
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