Bottlenosed Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Classification
- Domain Eukarota: The four kingdoms that fit into this group are Prostista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Every animal is apart of this Domain. Single or multicellular. All cells have a nucleus.
- Kingdom Animalia: All animals are apart of the Kingdom Animalia. Doesn't contain prokaryotes or protists. All are multicellular, lack cell walls and are heterotrophs.
- Phylum Chordata: Organisms that have a structure called a notochord. Phylum Chordata has bilateral symmetry and are chordates.
- Subphylum Vertebrata: Vertebrates that share a vertebral column. Some characteristics are shared by some or all vertebrates.
- Class Mammalia: Includes about 5,000 species places in 26 orders.
- Order Cetacea: All cetaceans share a number of similarities.
- Family Delphinidae: Delphinds are found in oceans and seas and some river systems. They are fast swimmers and use high-intensity sound to shock their prey.
- Genus Tursiops: Bottlenosed dolphin
Baby and Mom Dolphin
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General Description
Weight: The average weight of a bottlenosed dolphin is 881.06 lb.
Color: Bottlenosed dolphins are usually colored in some mixture of black, white, and gray.
Diet: The primary diet of a bottlenosed dolphin is mostly fish.
Predators: Mostly a bottlenosed dolphinsonly predators is a shark. Some types of mostly dolphin eating sharks are the bull sharks, tiger sharks, and dusky sharks.
Natural Range: Bottlenosed dolphins are found everywhere except polar waters.
Habitat Description: The dolphins habitat is in waters. It is usually found in deep waters and not too cold of water.
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Behavioral Adaptions
References
References
Bottlenose dolphin mammalia. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/mammals/bottlenose-dolphin/
Burton, M., & Burton, R. (2002). Bottlenosed dolphin. In International wildlife encyclopedia (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 266-268). New York, NY: Marshall Cavendish.
Jenkins, J. 2009. "Tursiops truncatus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed March 11, 2015 at http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Tursiops_truncatus/
Tursiops truncatus — Overview Bottlenose Dolphin. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://eol.org/pages/129548/overview