Facts about dolphins

Dolphin Gallery

By Anika

Bottlenose Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphins are toothed whales. They are the

friendliest and often tamed. Their relatives are the Tucuxi dolphin, Killer Whales, and White Sided Dolphins. They can be trained at marine parks. They love fish. They are known as the nicest marine mammals. They also can be the most talented mammals on earth.

The Bottlenose dolphins don’t sleep so much. They sleep for a few hours, while one dolphin keeps watch for anything that will attack the dolphin group.

Spinner Dolphins

Spinner dolphins are famous for spinning, of course. These spinner dolphins are very small. These interesting dolphins got their name by its actions of leaping and spinning.

There are 4 species of spinner dolphins, The Gray’s spinner dolphins, Eastern spinner dolphins, Central American spinner dolphins, and the Dwarf spinner dolphins.

Spinner dolphins can have a pod of a thousand.

These dolphins are found in Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean.

Orca

Orcas are one of the dolphin families, even though they don’t look like dolphin. In the 1970s, people thought killer whales were harmful, so they brought the whales out of the ocean from nets to kill them. They even called them “Devilfish.” Some even get killed from getting caught in nets! Now, people know that killer whales aren’t harmful mammals. Killer Whales don’t kill people. Even if the whale had the word ”Killer” in the name, doesn’t mean they kill people. These whales are like the other dolphins you see in the ocean.

Common Dolphin

There are two kinds of dolphins, the Long Beaked Common dolphin and the Short Beaked Common dolphin. Long Beaked Common dolphins have longer beaks, and have a dorsal fin in the middle and prefer shallow water. Short Beaked Common dolphins, have shorter beaks, and are bigger than long beaked dolphins, and they are found in deeper waters. Some researchers found that there might be a 3rd kind of Common dolphin. They are found in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.

These Common dolphins can be found in warm water.

Long Beaked Common dolphin Short Beaked Common dolphin

Striped Dolphin

Striped Dolphin is found in warm, tropical, and subtropical waters. Striped dolphins swim in deep waters in summer and autumn. They are near the shore in winter and spring. Striped dolphin can jump up to 23 feet (7 m) high.

When they jump, they rotate their tail several times. This is called roto-­‐tailing.

Now, you know most of the dolphins! Dolphin don’t swim all the time, they can do tricks! These mammals like to play a lot! I hope you learned more about dolphins.