Dolphin

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 * My animal is the dolphin the dolphin is very nice and fun to play with and good swimmer.

The dolphin is marine mammal which means that they live in the ocean all the time but every 2 or 1 hour they have to go up and take breathe. ** ** And now let me tell you about the dolphin's life. **

Unlike other mammals the lifecycle of the dolphin is somewhat complex. They give birth to live young. Dolphins are considered as one of the smartest animals in the world! They start out their life as babies, and as they grow older, they decide their own lives, whether to go out in the sea in any particular direction or stay with the pack that their mothers are in.



The dolphins lives for about 80 years. The dolphins lives with thyer mother until 12 years. ** Some dolphins live in the oceans and rivers in:

The blue shade is where dolphins live. And the dolphins also lives in the rivers! **

The food that dolphins eat is different for each species. While some dolphins eat fishes like herring, cod or mackerel, some others eat squids. Even more, large dolphins like the killer whales, eat some other marine mammals like seals or sea lions and sometime even turtles. Usually, the amount of fish that they eat depends on the kind of fish that they hunt. While mackerel or herring have a lot of fat, squid have not much fat, therefore, to get the energy required for their activities, dolphins have to eat more squid than mackerel. On average, a dolphin with a weigh of 200 Kg. to 250 Kg will eat between 10 Kg to 25 Kg of fish every day. Usually to hunt fish, some species of dolphins use a method called herding which is performed by a pod of dolphins where some of them surround a school of fish to compress them as much as possible, while some others take turns to dive through the compacted school of fish and feed. Other usual method is corralling where fish is chased to shallow waters where they cannot escape. Some species catch larger fish by hitting them with their tails to stun them. Therefore the question about what do dolphins eat, has to be answered for every species in particular. In this video you can watch a pod of dolphins working together to feed themselves and using the technique called herding to catch the fish as they surround the school of fish and then some of them take turns to eat.

In the video you can even watch fish jumping out of the water trying to scape and then they are catched as they jump.

Who would kill or hurt a nice and kind and cute creature like the dolphins i know what these other animals would: Dolphins are small, aquatic mammals which belong to the order Cetacea. Scientists today classify dolphins as endangered species because many populations have declined in recent years as a result of widespread habitat degradation and habitat loss. Dolphins once ranged widely throughout the rivers and coastal estuaries of Asia and South America. Today dolphins live only in limited portions of the Yangtze, Mekong, Indus, Ganges, Amazon and Orinoco river basins and coastal estuaries in Asia and South America. Dolphins flourish in zones of quiet water typically found near river confluences. River dolphins prefer to swim alone or in groups of two and three. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Several species lack the ability to see.

*Is the dolphins endangered? Well they are endangered but they aren't badly endangered. So don't worry too much but still if we don't act soon they might very well be very badly endangered creatures! Although fishing for tuna and other fish have been careful as of late, they are still caught in fishing nets. The other reason probably more prevalent has to do with global warming, As Dolphins migrate and also search for warmer waters they often end up more inland and in bays and gulfs too close too land and they are basically lost and can not swim or direct themselves out, because Dolphins swim in pods they are often led by a leader and they all follow him and get lost and will end up beaching themselves because they are simply exhausted from swimming trying to find their way out to open water. There is also some study done on diseases.


 * Resources

wikianswers.com www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/cetaceans/whalesanddolphins.html BOOKS: Secret of the dolphins All about wild animals dolphins Creatures of the sea dolphins

Interesting facts ** Dolphin have extremely good communication skills, learn difficult tasks quickly, and can recognize themselves in mirrors. They also have very large brains compared to their body size.

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