The Bottlenose
Dolphin |
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Emily |
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Bottlenose Dolphins weigh 440 to
600 pounds. They reach the size of about 10 feet. |
Bottlenose
Dolphins
have dark blue-gray to brown gray skin. |
Bottlenose Dolphins can be found in the Pacific
Ocean. They like warm water. Some live in the Atlantic Ocean. |
The Bottlenose Dolphin eats squid and
octopus. They eat about 13 to 33 pounds of food a day. The Bottlenose Dolphin eats different
kinds of fish also. |
Some actions that the Bottlenose Dolphin does
are swimming and hunting. They swim and hunt by moving
their tail left, right, over and
under. |
The Bottlenose
Dolphin's life span is about 30 to 50 years. First it's an
embryo, then an infant, next a young animal and
finally it becomes an adult. |
One interesting fact about the
Bottlenose Dolphin is that they have no jaw muscles for chewing.
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Another interesting fact is that
the species most familiar to people are the Bottlenose |
Dolphins because of their complicated
tricks. |
The Bottlenose Dolphin communicates by
high pitched whistles and clicks which create sound waves. |
The Bottlenose Dolphin is very sociable and they
generally live in groups. |
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