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While sharks and dolphins are certainly very different creatures, they do share some things in common. They both have dorsal fins, side fins and have a torpedo shaped figure. Additionally, they both live in water and are vertebrates.
Despite the surface similarities, they are very different animals. Dolphins are warm blooded, while sharks are cold blooded. Sharks' skeletons are made out of cartilage, and dolphins' skeletons are made out of bone. Dolphins nurse their young, and sharks do not. Sharks have no hair whatsoever, while dolphins are born with hair around their noses. Additionally, sharks get oxygen through their gills underwater, while dolphins surface and get oxygen from the air through their blowholes.
They both live in water (usually the ocean), they both don't sleep, they have sleek bodies for speed, dolphins, and usually sharks, both eat fish.
- Both have cartilages
- Dolphins and sharks are two ocean predators that have to compete for food and territory.
- They usually co-exist quite peacefully as part of a complex ocean eco-system, but occasionally they do attack and sometimes kill each other under various circumstances.
- Both are carnivorous (meat eaters)
- They both have many types, they both live in water, they both have fins, they both eat fish.
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What are the similarities between the sharks and the dolphins?
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