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Bottle nosed Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Description:

Bottlenose dolphins live in groups typically of 10–30 members, called pods, but group size varies from single individuals up to more than 1,000. Their diet consists mainly of forage fish. Dolphins often work as a team to harvest fish schools, but they also hunt individually. Dolphins search for prey primarily using echolocation, which is similar to sonar. They emit clicking sounds and listen for the return echo to determine the location and shape of nearby items, including potential prey. Bottlenose dolphins also use sound for communication, including squeaks and whistles emitted from the blowhole and sounds emitted through body language, such as leaping from the water and slapping their tails on the water surface.

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Hongkong Ocean Theater

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Kevin Kavi
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Kevin Kavi

Hong Kong, 香港 Hong Kong, Paracel Islands

Spotted on Dec 28, 2010
Submitted on Jun 11, 2011

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