Animal's Physical and Behavioral Adaptations
A dolphins dorsal fin is surrounded by veins to help conserve/dissipate body heat and can also maintain balance as a dolphin swims.
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It is believed that only half of a dolphin's brain is asleep and the other half is awake when a dolphin is sleeping so that it is able to swim to surface to take a breath. Dolphins are able to hold their breathes for a long amount of time but not to long because they do not have gills they have lungs.
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High-pitched clicks and whistles allow dolphins to communicate with each other.
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Dolphin's use echolocation through an organ in their head called the melon which allows a dolphin to know exactly where an object is, how bi an object is, and the shape of the object.
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Behavioral Adaptations:
Dolphin Groups:
Dolphins commonly swim in groups of 2 to 15 individuals. Other groups can join for several minutes or hours to form larger groups, during that time dolphins can change associates. The group sizes tend to increase with water depths and openness of habitat, correlating with foraging strategies and protection.
Dolphins commonly swim in groups of 2 to 15 individuals. Other groups can join for several minutes or hours to form larger groups, during that time dolphins can change associates. The group sizes tend to increase with water depths and openness of habitat, correlating with foraging strategies and protection.
Survival:
Bottlenose Dolphins establish and maintain by biting, chasing, jaw clapping, and smacking their tails on the water. These animals often show aggression by raking-scratching one another with their teeth, leaving superficial lacerations that soon heal but light parallel stripes remain on their skins. Another way that aggression is shown by dolphins is by emitting bubble clouds from their blowholes like seen on the image on the right.
Bottlenose Dolphins establish and maintain by biting, chasing, jaw clapping, and smacking their tails on the water. These animals often show aggression by raking-scratching one another with their teeth, leaving superficial lacerations that soon heal but light parallel stripes remain on their skins. Another way that aggression is shown by dolphins is by emitting bubble clouds from their blowholes like seen on the image on the right.
Daily Activities:
Bottlenose dolphins are very active animals, they are active to some degree during both day and night. Dolphins undergo daily cycles of activity, which include feeding, socializing, traveling, and resting as observations have indicated. A major activity in this animals daily activities is socializing. This organism usually eats early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Young and old dolphins chase one another, carry objects around, toss seaweed to each other, and use objects to solicit interaction, these activities can be a way of practicing catching food. The daily activities that these organisms make are influenced by physiological factors and environmental factors such as habitat, time of year, and time of day.
Way of catching their prey:
Bottlenose dolphins often cooperate when hunting and catching fish. They can also use its tail flukes to flip a fish out of the water, and then retrieve the prey. Some coastal bottlenose dolphins use a certain species of sponge as a shield to protect the dolphins beak from sines of certain fishes or stingrays when they dig through sandy-bottomed habitats in search of prey. Since dolphins do not chew they will shake or rub their prey on the ocean floor until suitable-size pieces break of. Dolphins also strip meat from spiny fishes reducing the chances of them being injured.
Bottlenose dolphins are very active animals, they are active to some degree during both day and night. Dolphins undergo daily cycles of activity, which include feeding, socializing, traveling, and resting as observations have indicated. A major activity in this animals daily activities is socializing. This organism usually eats early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Young and old dolphins chase one another, carry objects around, toss seaweed to each other, and use objects to solicit interaction, these activities can be a way of practicing catching food. The daily activities that these organisms make are influenced by physiological factors and environmental factors such as habitat, time of year, and time of day.
Way of catching their prey:
Bottlenose dolphins often cooperate when hunting and catching fish. They can also use its tail flukes to flip a fish out of the water, and then retrieve the prey. Some coastal bottlenose dolphins use a certain species of sponge as a shield to protect the dolphins beak from sines of certain fishes or stingrays when they dig through sandy-bottomed habitats in search of prey. Since dolphins do not chew they will shake or rub their prey on the ocean floor until suitable-size pieces break of. Dolphins also strip meat from spiny fishes reducing the chances of them being injured.