Species: Tursiops truncatus or Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Jenkins) The Common Bottlenose Dolphin is arguably the most popular species of the Delphinidae family. Because they are found in both temperate and tropical waters‚ they are the most studied; a majority of our Physiology knowledge about Delphinids as a family is based on Bottlenose Dolphins (Cozzi 411). Because of the wide variety of habitats and climates that Bottlenose Dolphins inhabit‚ there is a lot of debate about how many
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“The Music of Dolphins” 183 pg. By; Karen Hesse Just off the coast of Florida‚ A girl was rescued from an unpopulated island. She has been lost ever since at the age of 4‚ and was raised by dolphins until now. The girl was named Mila for Miracle‚ because miracle is when something is very difficult‚ but it happens. She has been living in sea for 13 years and was raised by dolphins and so it is a miracle. When
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The Differences Between Sharks and Dolphins Sharks and dolphins are both ocean creatures. From afar they look alike but are contrasting ocean creatures. One of the main allusions is that they are the same type of creature‚ but a shark is a fish while a dolphin is a mammal. Because sharks are fish‚ they are cold blooded‚ and because dolphins are mammals they are warm blooded. Dolphins have blow holes and can only stay under water for up to seven to twelve minutes. Although sharks do not have blow
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Draft As most of us know dolphins are very smart‚ but are they smart enough to communicate with each other? Yes they are‚ Dolphins are very social animals and can communicate with each other. We know they can communicate because to find and eat their food they use the communication to tell each other where to go (Dolphin Center 1). They can use their body language to communicate with each other‚ which is just one of the ways they can communicate with each other (Gregg 1). They Also can communicate
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Save the dolphins How many of you have been to a dolphin show at the zoo or aquarium? Have you ever wondered where the dolphins came from? Well‚ many people don’t know most of them come from Japan where every year thousands of dolphins are hunted and killed. The documentary film‚ The Cove‚ shows exactly what happens to the dolphins in Japan. It was my friend‚ Heidi‚ who first told me about this whole story and recommended that I watch this movie. Seeing how emotional and passionate she was about
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How To Protect Endangered Species? Indus River Dolphin Common names: Indus river dolphin‚ bhulan‚ blind river dolphin‚ Indus dolphin‚ side swimming dolphin‚ Plataniste de l’Indus (Fr)‚ Delfín del Indo (Sp) Scientific name: Plantanista minor What are Indus river dolphins? The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor) is one of the world’s rarest mammals and the second most endangered freshwater river dolphin. The species is characterized by a long beak‚ rounded belly‚ stocky body‚ very small dorsal
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reality for many helpless dolphins swimming the Taiji waters. Taiji is a small town located in Japan that plays host to the very cruel and inhumane slaughtering of dolphins. Every year from September to April the Taiji Dolphin Drive takes place and brutally strips hundreds of dolphins of their lives while others are captured and exported to aquariums all around the world. In 1987‚ one year after the International whaling commission placed a ban on whaling‚ the number of dolphins slaughtered tripled.
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Bottlenose dolphins are among the most vocal of the nonhuman animals and exhibit remarkable development of the sound production and auditory mechanisms. This can be seen in audition‚ which is shown in the animals highly refined echolocation ability‚ and in tightly organized schools in which they live that are made up by sound communication. In testing the communication skills of dolphins‚ extensive studies have been done on vocal mimicry‚ in which the animal imitates computer-generated sounds in
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extremely passionate and incredibly involved with marine mammals‚ especially dolphins. I had begged my mother to take me to Sea World when I was 12 years old‚ and to my amazement‚ my mother had gone above and beyond that request just to buy me a behind the scenes pass to the amusement park. Although I no longer support Sea World‚ this experience only solidified my love for marine animals. My favorite exhibit‚ of course‚ was the dolphins; I was able to feed them‚ swim with them‚ and learn a lot about their
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Dolphin Killings in Taiji‚ Japan Brutality‚ crimson waters‚ what a gruesome spectacle it is to see the horrifying sight of dolphins being slaughtered by Taiji fishermen for a profit. In a total of six months the murderers will catch and kill about twenty three hundred of Japan’s annual dolphin population of twenty thousand dolphins. The capture of the dolphins is sinister. The fishermen bang pipes together under the water to throw off a dolphin’s hypersensitive sonar in order to drive the dolphins
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