Life Cycle
A baby dolphin.
What is a calf?
What type of environment do dolphins like?
Shallow coastal areas of warm seas and oceans
What do dolphins primarily eat?
Fish (herring, mackerel, cod), squids, crustaceans (shrimp, lobsters, crabs), even jellyfish and octopus
A group of dolphins.
What are pods?
This is the largest kind of dolphin.
What is an Orca?
Number of babies that dolphins give birth at a time.
What is the number 1?
This dolphin is commonly found in the East Coast of the United States.
What are bottlenose dolphins?
This is how dolphins eat their food.
Swallowing
This is how dolphins "see" underwater.
What is echolocation?
How are the river dolphins different?
They have longer beaks, poorer eyesight, pink coloration, feed on freshwater fish
Typical lifespan of a male orca
What is 40?
Where are the freshwater river dolphins found?
Amazon Rainforest, India, Nepal, Pakistan, China
These dolphins hunt for seals, penguins, and even whales and sharks!
What are orcas?
What are clicks, whistles, and squeals?
Bottlenose dolphins have a stomach with this many chambers.
What is 3? For storing food, digesting it, and for preparing the digested food for absorption in the large intestines.
Gestation period of a bottlenose dolphin
12 months
These dolphins are found in the icy seas of the Arctic and Antarctic
What are orcas?
How do dolphins drink water?
They don't. They get all their water from their food.
Dolphins use these body parts to defend themselves from predators
What are nose and tail?
What makes a river dolphin pink?
Diet.
Blood vessels that run directly beneath their skin
Up to what age do calves stay with their mothers?
6 years old
Why are some dolphins endangered?
Pollution, overfishing, illegal fishing
How do dolphins hunt?
Herding and corraling, mud-ring feeding, tail whacking
Dolphins, whales and porpoises belong to this group of marine animals.
What are cetaceans? They have torpedo-shaped nearly hairless body, paddle-shaped forelimbs but no hind limbs, one or two nares opening externally at the top of the head, and a horizontally flattened tail used for swimming