Brittany Ahart Lawerence P-B 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.

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