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many dolphin species are marine, but not all of them. for instance, dolphins live in the amazon, and there's also the possibly extinct yangtse river dolphin. aquatic mammals are very versatile, and just about anywhere they can survive, you'll find them.

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Dolphin have to be conscious to breath.

This means that they cannot go into a full deep sleep, because then they would suffocate. Dolphins have "solved" that by letting one half of their brain sleep at a time. this has been determined by doing EEG studies on dolphins. Dolphin sleep about 8 hours day this fashion.

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No. They are mammals, not fish, and therefore they have to breathe air just like us. This means they could not even live on the bottom of the ocean, because they have to come up for air above the sea surface very regularly. So they live close to the ocean's surface. But they can 'hold their breath' so to speak very well and are capable of making long and very deep dives in their search for food.

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Dolphins can be found out in the oceans but they need to feed on fish from shallower waters nearer land so they are mainly found in relative proximity to Coastlines.

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top or shallow waters....but not to shallow

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