Bottlenose Dolphin Research Paper

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The bottlenose dolphin lives in the Pacific Ocean. They live in places like Japan, southern California, Australia, and Chile. They can also be found in the Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean. Bottlenose dolphin are not found in cold waters. A bottlenose dolphin has a wide variety of food that it eats including fish, squid and crustaceans.Bottlenose dolphins are around eight to nine feet long,and their skin is gray.Unlike most mammals the bottle nose dolphins don't have hair. They use their pectoral fins to steer while swimming, to stroke, and to touch each other. Currently the Bottlenose Dolphin is not endangered or threatened. Dolphins swim and live together in small groups called pods or schools.The schools have usually 12

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