Dolphins are very intelligent mammals who have a very strong relationship with their biggest threat, humans. We continue to harm the Pacific Ocean, their home, everyday with trash and pollution. Dolphins have adapted to live in the water with fins and a tail to swim and find fish to eat, which are only found in the water. With all of the destruction we are doing to the ocean, it is getting very difficult for them to find food, and they get tangled up in fishing nets that we leave in the water. If we continue to pollute and litter the ocean, dolphins will continue to struggle this way. This situation can easily be fixed by people recycling and composting, using less trash (using reusable containers instead of plastic bags, buying food with less packaging, etc.), and not using cars whenever it's possible. If everyone did those small, easy things, the troubles Dolphins are facing now will minimize greatly.
Dolphins are a blue-gray color with a long nose, eyes on the side of their head, three fins (one on their back and two on both sides of their body), and an upside down v-shaped tail that they move up and down to swim in the water. They can go up to thirty minutes between breaths and when they come up for air they often jump (sometimes up to thirty feet). Their sizes range from 4 feet and 90 pounds to 30 feet and 11 tons. Dolphins are mammals so they give live birth. Dolphins start out as larvae and naturally form into a dolphin and they grow that way until they have grown fully. Their average lifespan is seventeen years. They are slightly larger animals so their only predators are sharks. There is a total of 43 species of dolphins, 38 of them being marine, and only 5 are river dolphins. They have very good vision in and out of water, they use their sense of touch to replace their poor sense of smell, and their hearing is really good (dolphins hear about 10 times better than humans). To find their prey, fish, they use echolocation. Dolphins consume several pounds of fish everyday.
Dolphins are a blue-gray color with a long nose, eyes on the side of their head, three fins (one on their back and two on both sides of their body), and an upside down v-shaped tail that they move up and down to swim in the water. They can go up to thirty minutes between breaths and when they come up for air they often jump (sometimes up to thirty feet). Their sizes range from 4 feet and 90 pounds to 30 feet and 11 tons. Dolphins are mammals so they give live birth. Dolphins start out as larvae and naturally form into a dolphin and they grow that way until they have grown fully. Their average lifespan is seventeen years. They are slightly larger animals so their only predators are sharks. There is a total of 43 species of dolphins, 38 of them being marine, and only 5 are river dolphins. They have very good vision in and out of water, they use their sense of touch to replace their poor sense of smell, and their hearing is really good (dolphins hear about 10 times better than humans). To find their prey, fish, they use echolocation. Dolphins consume several pounds of fish everyday.