BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINSBY: MACKENZIE

Contents

Page 2 Introduction

Page 3 Contents

Page 4 Habitat/map of where they live

Page 5 life cycle of a bottlenose dolphin

Page 6 life cycle of a bottlenose dolphin

Page 7 bottlenose dolphin VS. goldfish

Page 8 characteristics

Page 9 diagram of a bottlenose dolphin

Page 10 food

Page 11 interesting facts

Page 12 Words to know

Page 13 bibiography

Introduction

All aboard the dolphin cruse!

The boat is short so you

could probably pet a

dolphin! Don’t worry they

won’t bite. Bottlenose

dolphins are very nice to

humans. If I were you I would

pack some lunch and sun

screen for this tour! Come

on Let’s go!!!

Looks like the dolphins are ready to go!

HABITAT / map of where they live

Bottle nose dolphins

live in the Pacific and

Atlantic ocean. They

migrate and go south

for the winter. Bottle

nose dolphins life in

tropical waters. They

live in waters from 50

degrees to 90

degrees. You can

find them in the deep

ocean or by land.

Sometimes

bottlenose dolphins

migrate for more

food!

This is a picture of

bottlenose dolphins

migrating.

=Where

bottlenose

dolphins live

The Life Cycle Of A Bottle Nose

Dolphin

Bottle nose dolphins are born tail first. After it is born it stays with it’s mom for 3-8 more years. The mom feeds it’s baby milk for 1 and a half to 2 more years. Right after the baby is born the mother quickly guides it to the curface.

They also start to mate at 3-8 years. They start to mate in spring or fall. They live for about 30 years.

Bottle nose dolphins live in groups called pods. In big pod there can be 40 members! Bottle nose dolphins can eat 13 to 33 pounds of food a day!

The life cycle of a goldfish

The female will lay about 25 eggs but only the healthy ones can live.

Baby gold fish are called frys. For about two days after they had been hatched they stay attached to a plant. When frys learn to swim they should be fed

Gold fish need lots of room to swim around in. They also need plants and rocks to hide their eggs. To get the eggs out the female rubs against a plant and her eggs come out!

Bottlenose dolphin VS. Goldfish

Both

GoldfishBottlenose

dolphin

3. Right after the baby

is born the mother

guides her baby to the

cerface. 4. They live in groups

called pods.

They have

nothing in

common.

1.Bottlenos

e dolphins

are born

tail first2.They stay

with their

mom for 3-8

more years.

5. They mate in

spring or fall.

1. The

female will

lay about

25 eggs. 2. When the

baby

goldfish

learn to

swim they

should be

fed.

3.To get the eggs

out the female

rubs against a

plant and her

eggs come out!

4. For about two

days the baby

goldfish had been

hatched they stay

attached to a

plant.

Characteristics

Bottlenose dolphins are gray mixed with blue, dark gray, and white. They have spots and stripes on their bellies normally. Bottlenose dolphin are normally 2-3.9 m. in length. In weight they are 150 – 200 kg! Bottlenose dolphins are heavy! Bottlenose dolphins can’t go to a full deep sleep or else they would drown! So they don’t drown, they keep one half of it’s brain awake and the other asleep! Isn’t that so cool? Pods help protect other

members of the pod. Did you know that bottlenose dolphins can live from 30-50 years! But sometimes they don’t live as long because of fishing nets, bad water , or other animals ate it.

This is a picture of a bottlenose

dolphin caught in a fishing net.

This is a picture of bottlenose

dolphins in polluted water.This a picture of a

shark killing a

bottlenose dolphin.

Diagram of a bottlenose dolphin

Food

Bottlenose dolphins eat mainly fish, shrimp, squid, crabs, and other small animals. Bottlenose dolphins get their food by herding schools of fish and then they take turns trying to snatch the fish. They hunt in pods and often use echolocation.

This is a picture of bottlenose dolphin being

fed.

Interesting facts

1. Did you know that people don’t know how many bottlenose dolphins are left in the world!?

2. Bottlenose dolphins are not endangered.

3. Did you know that bottlenose dolphins can dive more than 500m.!?

4. Bottlenose dolphins got their name from their stubby nose!?

5. Bottlenose dolphin can make up to 1000 clicking noises a second!!!

6. In the wild they swim more than 18 miles per hour!

7. The bottlenose dolphins has a thick layer of blubber that keeps them warm and protects them from

predators like sharks!

8. They have smooth, sensitive skin that falls off and gets replaced every few hours!

9. Did you know that bottlenose dolphins can hold their breath up to 7 min.?

10. A muscular flap on the bottlenose dolphin’s head opens for it to breath and then closes for it to go back

under water!

11.Did you know that bottlenose dolphins don’t naturally breath, they have to tell their body to breath then

they do it.

12.Did you know that bottlenose dolphins don’t have very much sense of smell?

13.Did you know that a bottlenose dolphin’s eye can look one way while the other can look another way!?

Words to know

1.Dorsal fin…. A fin on the bottlenose dolphin’s back

2.Pod…. A group of animals who live together

3.Blowhole…. A hole that opens to let the animal breath

4.polluited…. Water that has bad things in it

5. Fries…. A baby goldfish

6. migrating…. Moving to a different place

7.echolocation…. How it knows where it’s at

8.schools….A big group of fish

Bibliography

1.Seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-info books/bottlenose- dolphins/habitat-and-distribution/

2.www.easydaycharacters.com/easy-day-characters/key-west-dolphin-tours/dolphin-faql

3.www.ehow.com/info-8698262-life-cycle-bottlenose-dolphins.html

4.askshamu.com/infobooks/bottlenose/dietdol.html

5.www.tmmsn.org/education/dolphin-anatomy.html