Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Dolphins!
Do you know...
- Bottlenose dolphins have 80 to 100 teeth, but they do not chew their food.
- Dolphin’s squeaks are not made with their mouth, as they don't have vocal cords; all sounds come through the dolphin's blowhole!
- Dolphin uses its lower jaw and teeth as an antenna!
- Echolocation allow dolphin to be able to ‘see’.
- A dolphin can tell which direction a scuba diver is facing from a distance of one football field away!
- The average lifespan of a bottlenose dolphin is roughly 25 to 30 years.
- The oldest dolphin born in human care is 55 years old now!
^ Bottlenose Dolphin
More about Dolphins
The majority of small tooth whales are called dolphins. All have a beak like snout and sharp, conical teeth. Dolphin fish , neither a dolphin nor a porpoise, it is a sport fish related to the mackerels.
On an average term, dolphin species grows about 6ft in it lngth.
For the males, it is 4 to 8 inches longer than females. Bottle-nose dolphin,
known as one of the largest dolphin, can grow into a 9ft beauty in length and weighs about 440 lbs. Buffeo, also known as the smallest species, originated in
The Amazon River, rarely grows over 3.9ft in length. It is very small compared to the Bottlenose dolphins.
Dolphin consume living things and are considered as predators, except for trained dolphins. Their primary food is fish, herring, mackerel and sardines.
The friendly creature consumes about 66 lb a day.
Also dolphins do work well with human and are ready to be trained anytime.
The well known performers in aquariums are the Bottlenose dolphins as
they are much more capable of impressive tricks and are able to mimic sounds
of a few human words
Source :
· info - DolphinsPlus, The Dolphin Place
· picture - HiTech
