The dolphins sleep near the surface of the water, but they only take short naps because they do not have gills, they have lungs and need to go to the surface to breath.
No
because of there nose that is how it get it name bottled nose dolphin.
8 Hours
No. Bottlenose dolphins remain in the same form their whole life but grow in size.
Bottle-nose Dolphin
Interestingly bottle nose dolphins take turns holding each other up to the surface during sleeping. So to answer your question, bottle nose dolphins sleep at the surface so that they can breathe.
a bottlenose dolphin is a dolphin with a nose that looks like a bottle
The waters off of South Carolina are home to bottle nose dolphins. There are 79 species of dolphins but this one seems to like South Carolina.
no, they are two different dolphin species
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the bottle nose dolphin has a nose shaped as a bottle
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