Dolphins

The Australian snubfin dolphin, scientifically known as Orcaella heinsohni, found off the northern coast of Australia. The snubfin dolphin are characterized by their broad rounded head that is extremely mobile and usually has a visible neck crease (Beasley et al. 2005). The mouth line is straight and there is no signs of a beak. Their teeth are peg-like and there are less than 20 on each side of the jaws (Martin 1990). It is the reverse situation to most other dolphins, the u-shaped blowhole of Orcaella

Have you ever wondered how different and alike bottlenose dolphins and harp seals are?Bottlenose dolphins and harp seals have different body shapes,yet they have the same color.A bottlenose dolphin and a harp seal have different lengths and weights. The traits for a bottlenose dolphin and a harp seal are similar and different,but mostly different.The are both grey.Even though they both have the same color a bottlenose dolphin weighs much more than a harp seal.A bottlenose dolphin’s

The Amazon river dolphin is a dolphin with pink coloration that lives in the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon has a tropical rainforest climate with humid/warm weather, one season, and heavy rain getting between 1,500 mm and 3,000 mm a year. Despite the Amazon being a cradle of life, the Amazon river dolphins are being threatened with extinction. Contamination of their habitats, fishing, and humans killing them for bait are the main contributors to their endangered status. Their extinction threatens

each other. The size and shape of the brain differs between species, humans being the largest when comparing it to body mass and following with the species of dolphins (delphinus) which brain is the most similar to ours.The biggest brain on earth its the whales (Orcinus) but when compared to its body mass is actually regular size.Both the dolphin and whale belong to the category “Cetaceans”, both mammals that have the need to breath air, have bone structure and even vestigial limbs which scientific believe

How Intelligent Are Dolphins? There is something about dolphins that fascinates me. They are some of the most intelligent and beautiful animals that I have ever seen. Their faces are so cute that every time I look at a dolphin it looks like it is smiling at me and wants to tell me something. The noises they make represent some kind of language and it makes me wonder if they can really communicate. I also want to know what kind of feeling they have and whether they have emotions. This is why I

What is a dolphin? A dolphin is an aquatic mammal. There are a various amount of species of dolphins,who eat a large variety of food,and can live in several different environments. There are thirty-two different species of oceanic dolphins and five different species of river dolphins. River dolphins live in Ganges River, Chinese River, Amazon River, and the Indus River ("Dolphins." -and-more.com). There are only four species of river dolphin alive because one is extinct. These dolphins don't only

The video of the animals that was the most like human language was the dolphin in the video ‘The Language of Dolphins’5. This video represents that language that is most like human language because although it may not be a verbal language between her and her trainer, humans can effectively communicate effectively through non-verbal language, i.e. sign language and written word. Each hand gesture that the trainers do is a separate word, Akeakamai can take the separate gestures and put them together

the Tursiops Truncatus dolphin got its name? It got its name because it's nose, which is short and stubby. The Tursiops Truncatus' coloring is different from other dolphins. Their physical appearance is intriguing and distinctive. They have fascinating family life and eating habits. You can even see bottlenose dolphins in many places in the U.S.A. Their main home is the Pacific Ocean, but they also live in many other places. The coloring of the bottlenose dolphin is unique. It is light

lifetime he had been many things, a dolphin trainer, author, filmmaker and activist. On earth day 1970 he founded an organization called the dolphin project after he had the epiphany to switch from a life of training to saving. He worked as the main trainer on a popular show called Flipper. After the dolphin Cathy, that played flipper committed suicide, O’Barry realized there was a problem. He has now dedicated his life to saving dolphins. Most of the dolphins you see in aquariums were captured in

[fact]In countries outside the EU, dolphins live in conditions that make Attica (prison) seem like paradise. In September Ric O'Barry, former trainer of the TV dolphin Flipper, travelled with a animal welfare and conservation group to Turkey to help save two dolphins. At an unlicensed park in Hisaronu, on the Aegean, O’ Barry and others found Tom and Misha, two bottlenose dolphins, bobbing around in a stinking soup of excrement, rotting fish and worms, in a pool measuring 19 metres by 12 and just