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Bottlenose
Dolphin
Pictures Showing Behaviors and Charateristics of this Curious
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Bottlenose dolphins range in length from 8 to 12 feet and can weigh as much as 1400 pounds. The males are larger than the females. The size of a dolphin varies with habitat. Those dolphins in warmer, shallower waters tend to have a smaller body than their cousins in cooler waters. They have a high, curved dorsal fin in the middle of the back. They have broad notched flukes, and pointed flippers. Bottlenose dolphin have between 18 and 26 pairs of sharp conical teeth on each side of the jaw. Bottlenose dolphins capture prey, sometimes as a group effort, and feed on fish, squid, and crustaceans. When a shoal of fish is found dolphins work as a team to keep the fish close together and maximize the harvest. They also search for fish alone, often bottom dwelling species. An adult may eat as much as 30 pounds each day.
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, leaping at sunset, Caribbean
Picture #: 004383 |
Image of JoJo, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, showing open mouth threat display, Turks & Caicos, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic
Ocean
Picture #: 003089 |
Stock photo of JoJo, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, jumping
in boat wake, Turks & Caicos, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic
Ocean
Picture #: 003090 |
Photo of a bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus,Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003107 |
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Picture of JoJo, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, with snorkeler, Turks & Caicos, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic
Ocean
Picture #: 003077 |
Image of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus,
leaping, Dolphin Quest, Hawaii
Picture #: 003042 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphin, jumping, Tursiops truncatus, Bahamas, Caribbean
Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003124 |
Photo of Honey, a wild sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Belize, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003104 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus,
leaping, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003127 |
Image of JoJo, a wild
sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Turks & Caicos, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic
Ocean
Picture #: 003083 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, begging for food, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003141 |
Photo of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops
truncatus, leaping from the back of a wave they were surfing, Wild Coast, Transkei, South Africa
Picture #: 004448 |
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Picture of Honey, a wild sociable bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Belize, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003101 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphins, leaping at sunset, Tursiops truncatus,
Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003109 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, leaping, Tursiops truncatus,
Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003140 |
Photo of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, jumping in boat wake, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003153 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Israel, Red Sea
Picture #: 005408-HDE |
Image of bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, using sonar to locate fish buried in sand, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 005730 |
Stock photo of a bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus, blowhole open to breathe, Belize, Central America, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 005735 |
Photo of flipper, pectoral fin, bones of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Picture #: 005737 |
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