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What is a dolphins blow hole for?

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For allowing the dolphin to inhale and exhale gases so it can survive.

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Do dolphins brethin through their blow hole or mouths?

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What is a dolphins blow horn for?

Dolphins have blow holes, not blow horns. The blow hole allows the dolphin to inhale and exhale air. The blow hole is analogous to a nostril in other mammals.


How do dolphins breeth?

Through a blow hole, just like all other dolphins


How the dolphins breathe?

Dolphins breathe through the 'blow hole' in the top of their heads, surfacing from underwater to blow out the Carbon Dioxide and draw in oxygen.


What covers a dolphins blow hole?

The blow hole is a muscular sphincter; like the human lips, it has the power to close by itself, with nothing covering it.


Why don't dolphins have a nose instead of a blowhole?

Dolphins don't have a nose instead of a blow hole because they aren't supposed to breath just be able to blow air and water out of it.


How do dolphins flip?

They use their blow hole that causes conditional power that shoots them out of the water!!


How dolphins breathe in water?

They use a blow hole to breathe in/out air when the surface the water.


How dolphins breath?

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How can dolphins be whales but whales cant be dolphins?

Because dolphins has a blow-hole to sprout water and breathe like a whale while a whale is bigger in size and it can't do tricks like dolphin


do whale have blowholes?

No whale sharks don't have blow holes they have gills like other sharks


Do dolphins have bum holes?

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