Bottlenose Dolphins

I have seen a lot of dolphins around Cape Henry at Virginia Beach Virginia.

i think that most of there time they play with there friends or familey and go on adventures all the time

Well, per dolphin, it costs about $300 a day. if you take that and multiply that by 365 (365 days in a year), It'll be about $109,500 per dolphin a year. So a place like SeaWorld has probably about 10 dolphins. There goes a million dollars just to feed 10 dolphins for a year.

There's the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose (Tursiops aduncus).

Bottlenose dolphins have a warm, happy smile that has made them popular in our culture. That's why I love them. Dolphins have a lump of fat on their head called the melon. They are a solid grey color with some dark spots, a bottlenose dolphin has a dorsal fin, like any other dolphin specimen. The tail, or fluke, indicates that the animal is a mammal. Marine mammal's tails move up and down, vertically. Fish tails move from side to side. Bottlenose dolphins also have two small fins on either side of their stomach. I hope my information was useful.

Their teeth and snouts, often noted in the shape of a smile, is formed in a way that helps them to catch fish. The length of the snout also helps them to kill predators such as sharks, if one were to come after a young dolphin. Their blubber and smooth skin are used to move quickly through the water and when a dolphin dives down, which happens frequently for food, their heartbeat slows to save oxygen. As for intelligence, their brains are quite large and they show superior communication skills. One experiment had a diver play one dolphin noise. One of the dolphins placed its tail on the sandy ground and stood like the human. They mimicked the sound the humans had played and tried to continue the conversation by adding another sound. These "sounds" are echolocation, which means that the squeaks go out of the dolphin, hit objects, and then bounce back to the dolphin. This is how dolphins "see" under water.

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Thermoregulation,maintains a constant body temperature of 36 to 37 degrees Celsius and 96.8 to 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Camouflage, the skin helps them hide from dangerous predators. Looking at their backs it looks like the deep,dark depths of the ocean but, from the stomach it looks like the oceans light surface.

Swimming, helps them escape from predators and swim at speeds of 5-11 kph. ( 3-7 mph.)

Diving, the dolphin can store 36 milliliters of oxygen per kilograms of body weight which helps to dive.

Respiration, dolphin holds its breath underwater and comes jumping up from the water to take its breath.

I don't know. Why is the sky blue?! :) .. This is my very first answer:)
dolphins have a long nose because they could smell their prey much better and follow it to eat it. They also use their flippers to create a dust cloud to trap their prey and then catch it

A dolphin is a mammal and thus has a backbone like all mammals, us included.

Yes, dolphins are vertebrates: they have a set of vertebrae, also known as a spine or a backbone.

No body knows yet.

Absolutely! As President of The Dolphin Project headquartered in Savannah, GA, I assure you we have resident Bottlenose Dolphins living off the shores of Georgia. Research is ongoing by our group and various other organizations to assess the health and numbers of these marvelous creatures. For more information on our group: www.thedolphinproject.org To see these wonderous animals 'legally' contact: www.saltydawgadventures.com. Be wary of "dolphin tour" companies that abuse and violate the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Peach Hubbard

no. Dolphins are mammals (warm blooded, bear their young alive, suckle their young). Sharks are fish (cold blooded, lay eggs)

Fishing nets from fishers are often a trap for dolphins. When fishers cast their nets down into the ocean, hunting dolphins sometimes get caught in them as well. Not only have dolphins been caught, but full grown sharks have as well!

Another threat is the constant and rapidly growing amount of pollution from one species that SEEMS to be smarter than any other animal--humans. We are constantly polluting every body of water that seems to be available.

Savannah, age 12

dolphins suit there habitat because they can swim fast and they have the blubber to help them live underwater
Bottlenose dolphins are the most well known because they are the ones most commonly used in films and marine life acts. Some of their adaptations include echolocation for finding food and navigating through their surroundings. Also, females help each other when it is time to give birth and other females watch over and protect the newborn and it's mother.

There is no number about how many dolphins are in captivity. There could be thousands around the world and 1 dying every minute. But the thing is you cant get a proper answer.

It depends on what other organism is interacting with the dolphin.

Bottlenose dolphins weigh up to 1,000 pounds.
2,000 pounds for a dolphin that is 4m (metres)

Bottlenose dolphins start the gestation period with the copulation of a pair of dolphins. After the 12 months of the gestation period, a single calf is born, usually with the help of another dolphin which assumes the role of a midwife. Dolphin mothers give birth to the calf by releasing the tail of the baby first. This is done this way, to avoid that the new dolphin gets drown. The calf is nursed for up to 18 months with milk produced by the mother.After that, young dolphins stay with their mothers for around 6 years until they have developed all the skills for hunting and surviving.

The nose of a fish is called a snout.

The Boto dolphin, or Amazon River Dolphin, is also called the Boutu or Pink River Dolphin. It is a freshwater dolphin living in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in South America. It is endangered, and eats mainly fish, but will also eat shrimp, turtles and some amphibians.

Not the kind we have on the coast, or the bottle nose dolphin. Killer whales are though if you like them.

Additional Information: There are almost 40 different species of Dolphin. Of those 40 species, 36 species are listed by the International Union of Conservation for Nature, or the IUCN Red List with a status anywhere from "data deficient" to "critically endangered". The following is a list with the Dolphins listed by the IUCN Red List as endangered, and critically endangered.

Hector's Dolphin "Endangered" population "Decreasing"

Yangtze River Dolphin "Critically Endangered" population "unknown" possibly extinct.

South Asian River Dolphin "Endangered" population "Decreasing"

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Alright, so because a Shark is an animal it's Kingdom- Anamalia. Because it has a basic skeletal structure (Cartalidge, not bone) it goes into phylum chordata. Although, instead of being placed into the class mammalia like an elephant would, it is placed into the class chondricthyes, which is one of three classes of fish (The other two being Ostychthyes [Bony Fish] and Agnatha [Jawless fish]) that contains sharks and rays. It belongs here instead of mammalia because it's a fish, it lays eggs, has no fur, does not produce milk, etc. Look up what makes a mammal and you can compare them.