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

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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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