Characteristics of the Atlantic Botllenose Dolphin
On this page you'll find some simple facts about the Atlantic Bottlenose
Dolphin........
* The Bottlenose dolphin prefers to swim within 800 kilometer of shore.
* He has 23 to 25 teeth per jaw
* His neck is very flexible, unlike many other dolphins
* The colours of the bottlenose dolphin are gray to green-gray to gray-brown on
the upperside, but on the underside it's white
* They probably use their colours for camouflage
* The bottlenose dolphin uses his flippers to steer while swimming
* In the flipper he uses the blood-circulation to control body temperature
* His tail lobes are made of tissue and don't have any bone in it
* His flukes help him to observe body heat in the water, so he can feel when
someone's near him
* His dorsal fin is used as a keel, which stabilizes the dolphin when it swims
* He has a well-defined rostrum, three inches long
* His eyes are on the sides of his head, near the mouth-corners
* They have inside ears, just holes in their head
* People think the sight, hearing and touching are very acute, but they don't
know about their taste and smell
* They hear tones from 1 to 150 kHz, unlike humans, who only hear from 0.02 to
17 kHz
* They hear through their lower jaw
* The Bottlenose dolphins can dive into very deep water to hunt food. They can
stay there for about 8 minutes
* Bottlenose dolphin sleep for one-third of the day, that's about 8 hours a day,
just like humans.
