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What can I write about dolphins?
Dolphins are highly intelligent marine mammals that live in water but breathe through a blowhole on the top of their head. They are remarkable creatures that have developed a form of sonar called echolocation to hunt and prey. They are very friendly and playful.
Why are dolphins so important?
Dolphins play an important role in keeping their environment in balance. They eat other animals – mainly fish and squid – and are themselves a source of food for some sharks and other creatures. Without dolphins, the animals they prey on would increase in number, and their predators wouldn’t have as much to eat.
What we can learn from dolphins?
Dolphins can, however, establish strong social bonds. Dolphins also display culture, something long believed to be unique to humans (and possibly other primate species). Dolphins are known to communicate, teach, learn, cooperate, scheme, and grieve. They are also known to have displayed self-awareness.
Why are dolphins the best animals?
Dolphins are extraordinarily intelligent animals who also display culture, something which was long-believed to be unique to humans (although now recognised in various species). Dolphins are altruistic animals. They are known to stay and help injured individuals, even helping them to the surface to breath.
What is the main idea of dolphins?
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fish, reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs.
What is the description of dolphins?
Dolphins. Dolphins are small-toothed cetaceans easily recognizable by their curved mouths, which give them a permanent “smile.” There are 36 dolphin species, found in every ocean. Most dolphins are marine and live in the ocean or brackish waters along coastlines.
How do dolphins help our environment?
Answer: Dolphins are important to the environment because they can be good natural indicators of the biome conservation. As they are apex predators, they consume several species of fish and squid concentrating in their bodies the possible contaminants in the water.
What did you learn about dolphins?
Dolphins are considered the second or third most intelligent animals after man. Empathy is good. Dolphins understand when a dolphin or a human being are vulnerable to some danger, and that is why they are believed to have come to the rescue. They do not just leave those who need help.
What is the first lesson learned by a dolphin?
1. You should try to remember the names of people you meet, even if you’ve only known them for a short time. Dolphins have been known to remember the distinct whistle of another dolphin they shared a tank with up to 20 years ago, even if they only lived together for a few months.
What have you learned about dolphins by completing this lesson?
By completing this lesson you have learned a lot about dolphins that you did not know before. You took a little journey into the sea world!! You have learned about the species of dolphins,their characteristics, their habits, how they communicate, and how they live.
What are the characteristics of a dolphin?
As mammals, they have warm blood and nurse their young. Dolphins have more than one mate, and generally produce a single offspring that will stay with the mother for up to six years, depending on the species. Dolphins are graceful, sleek swimmers that can reach speeds of more than 18 miles an hour.
What is the evolution of the Dolphin?
Along with the Pakiectus, the dolphin is thought to have evolved alongside or from the Ambulocetus, Remingtonocetidae, Protocetid, Basilosaurudae, and Dorudontid to eventually become the Delphinus which is found in the Cetacea infraorder.
Dolphins and porpoises vary greatly in their degree of sociality. Porpoises and river dolphins tend to live alone or in small groups, with the only persistent groupings being mothers with their most recent calves. All dolphins are social to some degree, ranging from a few individuals to thousands in a school.