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Published on Jan 28, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Description:What it looks like

  • small cetaceans, like whale-
  • Long, beak like snout, .
  • dorsal fin,sharp teeth.
  • toothed whales.
  • one blow hole,small groups called pods.

size/shape

  • grows to be at most 12 feet (3.7 m) long.
  • weighing more than 1,400 pounds (635 kg).
  • they have streamed lined bodies.
  • have round heads with a beack.

Diet

  • mostly fish and squid
Photo by Michael Dawes

Pedators

  • tiger sharks, dusky sharks and bull shark,and orcas will eat upon dolphins. sometimes get trapped in a fishnet.

social groups

  • Dolphins live in small pods up to 12 whales and there social animals.
  • Often many pods group together to form a large group and hunderds of dolphins come together
Photo by jurvetson

Diving/Jumping

  • Dolphins can dive down to more than 1,000 feet (300 m) and can Jump up to 20 feet (6 m) out of the water

spouting

  • dolphins breath air at the surface of the water through a single blowhole located near the top of their head.
  • their blow is a single explosive cloud.
Photo by Michael Dawes

speed

  • Dolphins are very fast swimmers.

Habitat/range

  • Dolphins live near the coast and inside inshore waters from northern cape hatteras.

life span

  • Dolphins have a maximum life span of about 25 years.