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Bottlenose Dolphins
By: Brendall O’Banon
Learned Behaviors
• Learns how squeak, whistle, and click
• Play with humans
Inherited behaviors
• 10 -14 feet long• 400- 1000 pounds• No hair• Smooth • Feels like rubber when you touch
it
Adaptations
•Dark gray skin•Bottle type nose•Thick tail•Can swim up to 10 miles per hour
•Nose is 3 in. long
Behavior adaptations
•Can jump 10 feet in the air
•12 dolphins in a pod•Hits predator with nose and tail
Ecosystem and Climate
• Pacific Ocean• Near Australia,
Northern Japan, Chile, and Southern California
• 50*F – 90*F• Wet• Warm
Diet• Eats Squid, Fish, Shrimp, and Krill • Carnivore• Tiger Shark, Dusky Shark, and
Killer Whale eat it .• It is a predator and prey
Facts
• Sometimes it will hit the fish with its tail and kill it
• Eats 10 – 40 pounds of food per day
• 80 – 100 teeth
Interesting Facts• Herding :To get food the pod will circle
around a school of fish and take turns eating the fish
• Corraling : The pod will chase a school of fish to the shore line and trap the fish and take turns eating them.
• Male : Bulls • Female : Cows• Young : Calves
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