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Behavor
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Spinner dolphins may occur in schools with as many as 1,000 individuals, but it is common to have 200 or fewer to a school. They are very social with each other and with other species of ocean dwellers.
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Habitat
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It does spend time in both shallow waters and deeper water farther from land.
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Physical Description
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Spinner dolphins are six to seven feet long and have a three part color pattern on their bodies. The pattern consists of a dark gray back, a pearl-gray side panel, and a white belly.
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Food Habits
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Spinner dolphins are carnivorous. They eat mesopelagic fish and epipelagic and mesopelagic squid and shrimp (Klinowska, 1991). Most of the prey they eat are vertically migrating species (Norris et al., 1994).
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