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Bottlenose Dolphin
Brittany Ahart
Lawerence P-B
Summary
• Bottlenose Dolphins are very smart animals.
They talk to each other by whistling, squeaking,
and other sounds that means different things.
They are mammals. They travel in large groups.
They are light to slate gray on the upper part of
their body and pale to light pink on the bottom,
which allows them to blend into the ocean
surroundings. They go from 8 to 12 feet long and
can way as much as 1430 pounds.
Anatomy/Physiology
• Dolphins have a very hydrodynamic shape.
There fluke is or tail is spring loaded and is used
to get speed. They breath from there blow hole
when they emerge from the water.
Taxonomy
• Dolphins are in the phylum cordata which means
vertebrates. Vertebrates are living things with
backbones and spinal columns. They are in the class
mammalia. Mammalia are a class of air-breathing
vertebrate animals and can be told apart by a lot of
things. Their order is cetacea. Dolphins family is
delphinidae. There genus are delphinus. There
species is delphis.
Ecology
• The bottle noise dolphin lives in all parts of the world
except the arctic oceans.
Reproduction
• Dolphins have baby's like other mammals. Usually in
the spring time. Female have a short time every few
years to have a baby. It takes about 11 to 12 months
for the baby to come out.
Bibliography
• http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/btlnose.htm
• water.http://www.hickerphoto.com/bottlenose-dolphins-tailflukes-valencia-aquarium-11190-pictures.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin
• http://www.dolphins-world.com/Dolphin_Reproduction.html
• http://www.dolphinsworld.com/where_do_dolphins_live.html