Bottlenose dolphin is an ocean creature that is famous for its intelligent behavior and charismatic tricks. The most interesting thing about bottlenose dolphin is its friendly smile due to curved mouth. Today, bottleneck dolphins have become a true source of entertainment for the children as well as elders due to their funny behavior. Moreover, it is very easy to train these dolphins to show beautiful tricks. Here are some beautiful facts about bottleneck dolphins.
1. Scientific Name
Bottlenose dolphins belong to Delphinidae family and lie in the Mammalia class. Scientific name for bottlenose dolphin is Tursiops Truncates.
2. Two species
No doubt, bottleneck dolphins are the genus of dolphin family, but they also found in two different species. One is called Indo-Pacific bottleneck dolphin and the second specie is known as common bottlenose dolphin.
3. Features
The average weight of a dolphin is 230 kg, but it can be up to 450 kg. Similarly, the average length of 3.8 meters that can be up to 4 meters. Newborn bottleneck dolphins have weight and length up to 20 kg and 1 meter respectively.
4. Senses
Bottleneck dolphins have no sense of smell, but have excellent hearing and vision. Bottleneck dolphins are famous for their hearing sense and can hear the sound ranges from 1 KHz to 150 KHz that is very wide range as compared to human being.
5. Mammals
Bottleneck dolphins are the mammals and female dolphins feed their calves with their mammary glands. So, they just having shape like fish, but do not lie in fish class.
6. Sound Clicks
Another specialty of bottleneck dolphins is their loud sound clicks. These sound clicks of bottleneck dolphins help them not only in finding the other dolphins, but also to locate their prey as well. the loud sound clicks of bottleneck dolphins strike with the prey and bounce back in the form of eco. This eco tells the bottleneck dolphins about the shape, size, nature and distance of prey in front of them.
7. Pods
Bottleneck dolphins do not swim alone, but make a group to swim underwater. This group is called pods that consist of almost 10-12 dolphins. Often these pods combine to make a herd of hundreds of dolphins.
8. Breathing system
Breathing system of bottleneck dolphins is just like human being; as they cannot take breathe under water. That is the reason that makes them, such aquatic animals that do not stay long underwater or an animal of deep water.
9. Beaks
The name of bottleneck dolphin is due to their weird-shaped beak that is in curved form. The length of beak could be up to 3 inches.
10. Reproduction
The time span between two births of a female bottleneck dolphin is about 2-3 years and gives only one baby dolphin at one time.