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Bottlenose
Dolphin
Pictures Showing Behaviors and Charateristics of this Curious
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The bottlenose
dolphin is one of the world’s best known dolphins.
There are two separate species, the Common Bottlenose
Dolphin Tursiops truncates, and the Indo-Pacific
Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops
aduncus. Both species
live in warm and temperate oceans worldwide. Tursiops
truncates is further divided into two sub-species,
Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops
truncatus gillii,
and the Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops
truncatus ponticus. Large shark species prey on the bottlenose
dolphin, especially the young. However, the dolphin
has developed a mobbing behavior to protect the group
which can be fatal to the shark. Even a single adult
dolphin is dangerous prey for a shark of similar
size.
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Israel, Red
Sea
Picture #: 005408 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphins, jumping, Tursiops
truncatus, Bahamas, Caribbean
Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001822 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, jumping, Tursiops truncatus,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001816 |
Photo of Spot, a wild,
sociable ambassador bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, and tube sponges,
Aplysina fistularis, Cayman Islands, Caribbean
Picture #: 000141 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphin leaping, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea
Picture #: 066780 |
Image of Honey, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus,
Belize, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003061 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Roatan,
Honduras, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 000759 |
Photo of Spot, a wild,
sociable ambassador bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus, Cayman
Islands, Caribbean
Picture #: 000124 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, jumping at sunset, Tursiops truncatus,
Roatan, Honduras, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001815 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 002685 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphin, jumping, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001821 |
Photo of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas, Caribbean
Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 011497 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphin, leaping, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003123 |
Image of JoJo, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus, that remains
fascinated with boat propellers despite many injuries,
Turks and Caicos, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 008870 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, leaping at sunset, Tursiops truncatus,
Roatan, Honduras, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 002784 |
Photo of a bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus, Caribbean
Picture #: 001818 |
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Picture of Honey, a
wild sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus,
Belize, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001819 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphins, jumping, Tursiops truncatus,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001924 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Dolphin
Quest, Hawaii
Picture #: 001812 |
Photo of wild bottlenose
dolphins wake riding, Tursiops
truncatus, two adults
and a calf in middle, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 002221 |
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