Sunday, January 24, 2010

Bottlenose Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphin
Bottlenose Dolphin can be divided into two species: Common Bottlenose Dolphin or Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphin. The specific name of Common Bottlenose Dolphin is Tursiops truncates, while the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin is Tursiops aduncus. Bottlenose Dolphins lives in groups called pods that typically number about 15 dolphins. They eat mainly of forage fish. There is a blowhole on their head. Adults range in length between 2 and 4 meters and in weight between 150 and 650 kilograms. Newborn Bottlenose Dolphins range in 0.8 and 1.4 meters and in weight between 9 and 30 kilograms. The Common Bottlenose Dolphins live in mostly tropical to temperate countries, while the Indo-Pacific Dolphins live in around India, northern Australia, South China The eastern coast of Africa.