1. Bottlenose Dolphins By: Sidney Ropp 6A

2.  Eat a variety of fish, shrimp, squids, etc.  Eat about 5% of their body weight a day  Dolphins don’t chew their food  When they find small fish, they flick the fish up with their fins and wait for the stunned prey to fall back down into the water

3.  Live in groups called pods, 2-15 dolphins in one pod and they hunt together for schools of fish  Live about 20 years, but can live to be up to 50 years old  Spend about 33% of their day sleeping  Swimming speed is 3 mph to 7 mph

4.  Can stay up to 15 minutes underwater  Can be as long as 2.8 meters long  Can leap up to 20 feet in the air  Have very good hearing and excellent vision  Called bottlenose dolphins because beak is shaped like a bottle  Scientific name- Tursiops truncates  Males can weigh more than 1000 lbs  Their brain is bigger than a human’s

5. Females reproduce every 2-3 years A calf is born tail first so it doesn’t drown The female continues nursing 8 months after the calf is born A calf is about 3 feet long when born When pregnant, eat about 8% of their body weight a day

6.  When training, it must trust you  Create a signal for every single thing you want your dolphin to do  Dolphins are fast learners but you have to work slow

7.  Active predators  Dive as far down as 1600 feet for prey  Eat their prey quickly- stomach is designed for rapid digestion  Hunt in their pods

8.  Live in all of the oceans  Also found in gulfs (especially Gulf of Mexico)  Live in saltwater regions  Pods travel to where they can find food

9.  A dolphin with an artificial tail (had more than 50 different tails attached as she grew)  Crab trap lines cut off circulation to her tail when she was 3 months old  Made into a movie (Dolphin Tale)  Can be visited at Clearwater Marine Aquarium  Weighs a healthy 230 pounds

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