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the melon is used to help them focus on the sounds they sent off during echolocation
dolphins use their melons to produce sound waves.
Because its Shaped Like One
It can be
A melon.
The approx brain weight of the dolphin is 1700g.
Rock melon
bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, melon-headed whale, killer whale(orca) and common dolphins are found worldwide mainly offshore in warm seas
The fancy/other name for a dolphins name is a called a melon.
Melon. Try googling 'Melon whales' and the information is in Wikipedia. My reason for wanting the answer is that a clue in a general knowledge crossword was about this.
When the sleep their brain is half awake so it can breathe
They're not different. All dolphins (and whales for that matter) have half their brain sleeping and half their brain awake at all times. This is so they can go to the surface to breath and are not caught off guard by predators.
The body parts of a dolphin is... Beack, Blowhole, Dorsal fin, Ears, Eyes, Fluke, Flipper, Median, a Notch and a Melon.