Bottle- nosed dolphin
by Melissa and Elise.
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The Bottle-nose dolphin gets its name from its beak which is 20 cm long and pointed at the tip. Males can grow to be 3.7metres long and weight 440kg .Females are a little smaller. Bottle-Nose dolphins are found in warm waters. |
Dolphin jumping with a sunset. |
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Animal Profile Full name: Terseeopstrunkartus say: (ter-see-ops-trunk-artus) Size: Up to 12 feet long . Weight: 200 to 440 kg. Habitat: Coastal waters. Bottle- nose dolphin swims in groups of pods . Found: World wide. Relatives: All sorts of Wales and porpoises. Food: All sorts of fish. Identification: Silvery-grey above, pale below hocked fin. Threats :Tuna fishing and pollution |
Drawing of dolphin. |
| Location
This is a map of Australia. The red is where the bottle-nose dolphin is found. They live all around Australia in the bays of warm water. Lots of dolphins can die every year because they get stuck and suffocate in fishing nets. Some dolphin are killed for the blubber |
Where Dolphins live. |
| Dolphins in Captivity
Some dolphins do tricks at sea world and are kept there. The dolphins are breed there. They do no get to swim with wild dolphins. The bottle-nose is the best for doing tricks!! A bottle nose Dolphin poses for the camera. The bottle-nose dolphin is the most familiar of all dolphins. "Flipper'', the star of the TV. program, was a bottle-nose dolphin. Lots of dolphins have been in TV programs |
Some dolphins doing tricks at Sea World. |
The digestive system and skeletal system of a dolphin. |
Digestive and Skeletal System
The dolphin's lungs are green. A dolphin's brain is cream. The oesophagus is brownish-reddish and the liver is purple. There are 67 bones in a dolphin. The melon, a skull like part of the body, is light blue. The heart is red. The intestines are light blue. The stomach is light blue. The kidney is red. The blubber is grey. |
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Breeding The baby is being born tail-first, the usual way. It has been growing inside the mother's body for about a year, and is now nearly 1m long. This birth is taking place near the bottom of an aquarium. In the wild birth takes place close to the surface so the baby can surface quickly and start to breathe.
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