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    Bottlenose Dolphins Known for their curved mouths and acrobatic flips, the bottlenose dolphin is a friendly and intelligent sea creature known to humans around the world. They can often be seen performing flips and tricks as the stars of aquarium shows, and are named after their unique shaped beak, the “bottlenose”. The bottlenose dolphin has a sleek, streamlined-shaped body to help them reach fast speeds and for jumping high. Its skin is smooth and rubbery since it doesn’t have any sweat glands or hair. Just like human skin, dolphins shed their old skin cells and replace them with newer ones. Their skin cells are usually replaced every two hours, giving them a smoother skin layer for swimming efficiency by reducing resistance to movement. A bottlenose dolphin's skin color is gray on its back and white on its and belly. The reason for this unique coloration is quoted from Seaworld: “This coloration… may help conceal a dolphin from predators and prey. When viewed from above, a dolphin's dark back surface blends with the dark depths. When seen from below, a dolphin's lighter…

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    water droplets falling from its bottle-like snout and flippers. This creature is a bottlenose dolphin. I chose the bottlenose dolphin because it is one of the world’s smartest creatures, along with being altruistic and playful towards other dolphins, humans, and even whales. I was inspired to research more about bottlenose dolphins after seeing several dolphins in the ocean while on vacation at Maui, and I wanted to learn more about the lives of these fascinating animals. …

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    Common Bottlenose Dolphin: Anatomy: Common Bottlenose Dolphins are marine animals that live their whole life in the water. Their blowhole is on top of their head. Their ears are close to their eyes. They have 2 fins; a set of fins called Pectoral Fins that helps them swim. The other one is a single fin on top of their head further away from the blowhole called the Dorsal Fin that helps them keep stable against the water currents. They have a small patch of skin on their stomach that is…

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    Bottlenose Dolphins: Wild vs. Captivity Imagine that all your life you were free to run to any place that you wanted, and nothing could stop you. But wait, there was one thing. Stop! There is a person taking you by the arm and dragging you back home against your will. From that day on, you were locked in your house, never to be let out again. This is what is happening to Bottlenose dolphins, who are being taken out of the wild and brought into captivity around the world. Many people say this…

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    The common bottlenose dolphin is one of the most well-known marine mammals worldwide. Kids love them, parents are intrigued by their intelligence, and people of all ages can agree that the bottlenose dolphin is one of the most likable mammals. The common bottlenose, or Tursiops truncates, have a lot more to them than just their ability to win people over with their tricks. These mammals are one of the most intelligent aquatic animals, and because of this they have been taught tricks and to…

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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…

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    Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence What was done? An experiment was performed on two dolphins one was 13 years old male Bottlenose dolphin and other was 17 years old male bottle nose dolphin. This experiment was performed to see if there is any ability in dolphin to use the mirror to inspect any marked part of the body and to prove whether they have self- recognition ability in them or not. How it was done? Two dolphins were kept in the pool for…

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    Comparison of the Great White Shark (Carcharodon, Carcharodon Carcharias) and the Bottlenose dolphins’ (Tursiops, Tursiops Truncates) Social Behavior Umaima Sarwana 5130544 BSC1011L-U02 Janelle Nunez-Castilla Topic: Comparison between the social behavior of Bottlenose dolphins and the Great White Shark. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast between the social behaviors of the two organisms, and in general, discuss about aquatic life. Also, the…

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    I believe that changes to living and non -living parts of an ecosystem impact population within the habitat because if you take away or put something into an ecosystem you are affecting everything around you. Especially if you put in or take out a keystone species. Keystone species are animals that other animals rely on and need to grow. So if you take away an animal that everyone relys on you are hurting all the other animals. In my connection map I wrote about the bottlenose dolphin. It was a…

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    Many people confuse porpoises with dolphins but they are actually different animals. They both are Cetaceans and have similar shapes but that’s about as far as their similarities go. The most confused species of porpoise and dolphin are the Harbour Porpoise and the Bottlenose Dolphin found in Britain’s seas. This is because from far away they look similar, but if you actually look at the two of them you would see they are very different. For the sake of simplicity, one can compare the…

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