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Bottlenose Dolphins

The Bottlenose Dolphin is the largest of the beaked dolphins and lives in temperate and tropical seas worldwide. The Bottlenose Dolphin can also be trained to perform in marine centres and can be swum with and stroked by humans. This category consists of questions about the Bottlenose Dolphin’s habitat, structure, etc.

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Is a bottle nose dolphin covered in scales?

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Dolphins are covered in skin. See link for more.

Do humans help dolphins?

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Yes! By calling 9-1-1 or notifying available lifeguards, the area can be secured for a rescue team which may need additional manpower to assist with the animals' return to sea. They have been known to circle & re-strand themselves! Do NOT under any circumstances try this alone! Off the coast of Chile, Orca have been seen surfing in to the shore to prey on seals. You might look like one to them! This is NOT a drill, people!

Note: this answered the question: "should we be saving whales and dolphins" "yes", without any rationale, and went on to make some points on how to save them. The answer lacks both depth and understanding.

I have saved whales, and cried, exhausted, and felt at the time it was the right thing to do. I am now just starting to have second thoughts. What if they are doing it deliberately, trying to communicate to us a message: 'please stop slaughtering our families and our bravest ones will come to you freely'. If this is a even a possibility, and the level of social intelligence and complexity of these creatures certainly does not exclude it my mind, what does our act of dragging them back out to sea communicate back to them? It is kind of horrifying.

What are the seasonal behaviors of dolphins?

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Dolphins are adapted by their small layer of hair in the winter to keep them warm and in the summer they shred their hair. Their diet remains the same the whole time.

Why is a bottlenose dolphin called bottlenose?

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because when dolphins are born, on the left side of them they cant see behind them but they can see in front. they just cant see behind them thats why theyre blind. DUH!

What layer of the ocean do bottle nose dolphins live in?

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The dolphin swims fairly close to the surface as the pod likes to flip and play.they also enjoy midwaters where the eat and swim as well as communicate with ea other. But they can't stay down too long .they need to Surface for a breath!

How many babies do dolphins have in their life time?

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A dolphin can have about 17 calfs in their lifetime Dolphins will rarely have multiple births so yeah follow me on Instagram imabakedpotoa

What does a pink bottlenose dolphins look like?

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They are 6.6-12.8 feet long on average. They may weigh 330-440 pounds. Their skin is very smooth and feels like rubber. The color varys from gray to dark gray on their backs and fading to white on their belly. See related link below..


Bottlenosed dolphins look like streamlined cylinders of a blue-ish grey color. They have 3 fins, 2 located on it's sides near it's head, and one on the center of it's back, not including it's tail. They have one of the longest snouts of any dolphins.
Bottlenose dolphins look like they're smiling at you.

They are a grey color and is very smooth and does not have hair like most mammals.

They are about 8-9 feet when full grown.

Bottlenose dolphins have a streamlined body with a large fin at the top.

Please see the related link below for a picture of a bottlenose dolphin.
A dolphin with a nose like a bottle

Do dolphins like carrots?

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Carnivals? No.

But Yes, dolphins are carnivores. They eat fish, not vegetation.

Their teeth are small and sharp, angled backwards towards their jaws - when catching and killing fish, they actually use a grinding action to work the softer flesh against the back of their jaws, crushing their bones with the combined pressures.

A common technique to catch fast fish is to hunt in pods of dolphins. They work together to gather schools of fish tighter and tighter, sometimes antagonizing them for hours until the fish cling together tighter and tighter with exhaustion and fear; hormonally the fish react slower and they bump into each other more. At that point, the dolphins dart into this 'fish ball' one-at-a-time, catching fish much more easily than hunting after one fish at a time. It's quite a sight to see!

How do bottle nose dolphins contribute to biodiversity?

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A niche is essentially when, where, and how the animal lives. A Bottle-nose dolphin lives near the top of the food-chain, although it still has some predators, such as the great white shark. It's territory is the ocean- it lives in many different areas, so you can look up its habitat. The dolphin feeds off of schools of fish, and sometimes squid. Some species of dolphins also migrate, depending on the location of the animal.

How does bottlenose dolphin care for their young when they are born?

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IT CARES FOR ITS YOUNG FOR A LITTLE WHILE THEN EAVES WHEN THE BABY CAN TAKE CARE OF ITSELF! lIKE ALL MAMMELS THEY LOVE THEIR YOUNG EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T SHOW IT.

What is the size of a bottlenose dolphin?

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Common research tells us that the Bottlenose dolphin can grow as large as 12 feet and weigh as much as 900 pounds. Since we have not measured and weighed all of them this general information is based on limited research. I personally swan with two that were only about six feet long and they weighed 300 and 350 respectively.

What is the name for a group of bottlenose dolphins?

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A baby dolphin, whale, or porpoise is called a calf.

What temperature of water does a bottle nose dolphin live in?

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What type of climate they live in is very cool in the winter which is very sad because some of the animals die because of the cold weather. In the summer the waters are warm but if there is a breeze sometimes the water can get very chilly.

Have another question like what is the habitat of a bottle nose dolphin?

This is a very simple question they actually live in lagoons bays harbors and golfs like the gulf of Mexico.

What ocean do they live in?

They live in the Pacific ocean

How do bottlenose dolphins protect themselves from enemies?

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Bottle nose dolphins protect themselves by jumping high in the air and confusing predators. They also protect themselves by jamming their noses into things such as sharkks soft bellies..

Go dolphins!
They have incredible speed, the jump into the air really high to confuse their predators, and they use their pointed noses to attack if absolutely necessary. -Fire Drill
Bottlenose dolphins in many cases have the advantage of being an apex predator, that is, an animal that is not hunted for food by any other organism in their eco system. In cases where this is not always the case, they survive by defending themselves coordinating with other members of their pod to fight off potential threats. These animals utilize their teeth as their main method of defense.
How do dolphins protect. Temslefa

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By Living in pods.

Which is especially important when killer whales or sharks are nearby. If a shark tries to attack a dolphin in the pod, the other dolphins will circle the shark. Then they swim into the shark's underbelly, striking it with their snouts. A dolphin might also lie calmly in the water, tricking a predator into thinking it is dead. Sharks and killer whales tend to like only fresh meat, so the predator will usually swim past a dolphin playing dead.

Do the Bottle-nose Dolphins live in the salt water?

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Bottlenose dolphins are only known to live in oceanic environments, this falls under salt water, however they are capable of surviving in fresh water as they are not reliant on water to survive in the same manner fish are

How much does the female bottlenose dolphin weigh?

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the male dolphin weighs about 300-500 pounds. the female, called the cow, weighs a little bit less.

What is a dolphin's strongest sense?

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it send clicks that can travel more than a mile underwater.

Who Found Winter The Dolphin?

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Winter got tangled up in a cage and a fisher man came to help her and then they had to cut off her tale only when she was 2 months old!

How do bottlenose dolphins escape predators?

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i think this is it:

they wave their tail, blow bubbles and send sounds to scare the shark off

sry if its rong i am no expert lyk but i do no sum stuff

What feature helps a bottle nose dolphin swim?

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The nose of a dolphin helps the sonar travel. Also, the nose is good for digging in the sand below the ocean serface

What ecosystem do bottlenose dolphin live in?

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Dolphins are important to the ecosystem in the sense that they are apex or top-level predators which control populations of fishes and squids and keep the ecosystem balance.

Lately, the bottlenose dolphin has been identified as sentinel of the coastal marine ecosystems, because their consume of a wide variety of fishes and squids, they concentrate contaminants in their bodies when there are high concentrations of contaminants in the water.

Well in affence dolphines live in the Water duhhh

Why are bottlenose dolphins mammals?

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Scientific Classification for Bottle Nosed Dolphin

keep* Kingdom: Animalia

pond* Phylum: Chordata

clean* Class: Mammalia

or* Order: Cetacea

froggy* Family: Delphinidae

gets* Genus: Tursiops

sick* Species: T. Truncatus

*just an easy way to remember it, hope it helps! :p