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Bottlenose
Dolphin
Pictures Showing Behaviors and Charateristics of this Curious
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Bottlenose dolphins have a gestation of 12 months and calve year round. Males reach sexual maturity at about 10 years. Females reach sexual maturity at about 5-10 years and produce one offspring every two to three years. The mother nurses the calf for 12-18 months and the calf will stay with the mother for up to 6 years learning how to feed. Sometimes, the mother will get help from another female, referred to as an auntie, in caring for offspring. Female bottlenose dolphins live for about 40 years, the males live for about 30 years. During the mating season male dolphins compete very vigorously with each other through displays of toughness and size with a series of acts such as head butting.
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Picture #: 018498 |
Image of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gilli, in net at Iki Island, Japan
Picture #: 021179 |
Stock photo of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 011496 |
Photo of bow riding wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, spouting, note rainbow, off Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 013815-H |
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Picture of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, calf born to mother Fud, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 014171 |
Image of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, playing with hula hoop
Picture #: 015614 |
Stock photo of Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, breaches the ocean surface as it leaps and takes a breath. Open ocean near San Diego., California, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 016455 |
Photo of man and woman swimming with atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Picture #: 018484 |
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Picture of a bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, bowriding, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 020069 |
Image of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Bermuda, North Atlantic Ocean.
Picture #: 027761 |
Stock photo of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 024484 |
Photo of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops
truncatus,leaping from the back of a wave they were surfing, Wild Coast, Transkei, South Africa
Picture #: 030717 |
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Picture of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus,open-mouth threat display, Roatan, Honduras, Caribbean
Picture #: 024489 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops truncatus,Australia
Picture #: 024491 |
Stock photo of Honey, a wild sociable bottlenose dolphin, or ambassador dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, swims over a seagrass bed, turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum, Lighthouse Reef, Belize, Central America, Caribbean Sea
Picture #: 030905 |
Photo of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, interacting with visitors at the Dolphin Cove at Seaworld Orlando, Florida
Picture #: 023093 |
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Picture of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus,California
Picture #: 024494 |
Image of bottlenose
dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Azores Islands, Portugal, North Atlantic
Picture #: 024930 |
Stock photo of a trainer teaching a boy a hand signal for bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, to show teeth, Roatan, Honduras, Caribbean
Picture #: 027019 |
Photo of a bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, feeding on baitball of sardines, Sardinops sagax, Transkei, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Picture #: 030632 |
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