Bottlenose Dolphins
- Bottlenose dolphins can swim up to 260 m below the surface of the ocean. However, they need quick access to air in the surface, bottlenose dolphins usually are shallow divers and close to the surface.
- They can stay up to 15 minutes under water. But they usually stay only a few minutes diving.
- Bottlenose dolphins can grow up to 2.8 meters. There are some other smaller species but there are some species much bigger, just like the killer whale.
- Warm blooded. Their internal temperature is around 36 degrees.
- Their average brain weighs 1500-1600 grams.
- They are great communicators.
- Bottlenose dolphins can swim 5 to 12 kilometers per hour.
- Both young and old dolphins chase one another, carry objects around, toss seaweed to one another, and use objects to invite each other to interact. Such activity may be practice for catching food.
- Bottlenose dolphins can live for more than 40 years. However an average lifespan for a bottlenose dolphin is 25 years.
- They usually travel in groups, called 'pods'. Around 10-15.
- It breathes through a 'blowhole'. A hole at the top of its head.
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