During the field trip of my son, their teacher brought them to one of the spot where they watched the dolphins play. We've been their and we enjoy watching dolphins play. My son went home satisfied with what he had seen. He enjoyed the moment when he watched those intelligent dolphins played.
Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. All dolphins are toothed whales belonging to the sub-order of the order cetacea.
There are different kinds of dolphins and most of them were intelligent enough to entertain people with their natural ability.
Here are some of their kinds:
Bottlenose dolphin
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Bottlenose dolphin, is the best known than any other kind of dolphin. It is most common dolphin along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It can also be found in every ocean throughout the whole world, and likes both warm and cool waters. These playful creature are intelligent and known for their disposition and agility. They live in a social groups called pods. A pod can vary in size 5to 100 dolphins in a group. Their color is grey, with the shades of grey varying among populations; can be bluish-grey, brownish-grey, or even nearly black; often darker on the back from the rostrum to behind the dorsal fin. What the bottlenose dolphin does is its beak, full of speed, into a shark. The slam has so much force that the shark's inside organs are damaged. After so many attacks only a couple of sharks can survive. The only way sharks can be sure that they have a dolphin as a meal is by sneaking up on them. This is the reason why scientists think that the 13-foot bottlenose dolphin sleeps with one eye closed.
Common Dolphins
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Common dolphins, is highly sociable as are many other dolphins. Common dolphin is the most sociable though. They jump out of the water and then dive right back in perfectly. Not even humans can do that! Since they are very social sea mammals, they travel in school of three thousand. Common dolphins are colorful, with a complex crisscross or hourglass color patern on the side; the long-beaked common dolphin being more muted in color. When looking at the profile of the two common dolphin species, the short beaked common dolphin has a more rounded melon that meets the beak at a sharp angle, as compared to the long beaked common dolphin that has flatter melon that meets the beak at a more gradual angle.
Spinner Dolphin
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Spinner dolphins also travel with yellow tuna fish same with bottlenose and common do. Spinner dolphins are identified by the habit which gives them their name. They jump out from the water and spin like tops before diving back into the ocean. The Spinner dolphin is usually dark gray, with darker patches in the tail stock, back and throat. Usually it has a creamy-white patch on the belly, though this varies considerably. Their beaks are distinctively long and thin, with a dark tip. The fins, also, are lengthy for dolphins of this size.
These sea mammals which can give entertainment to the people should not be harm. Let's preserve them. Do them no harm for they are endangered species.
Resources: hawaii-bed-and-breakfast.blogspot.com
library.thinkquest.org
en.wikipedia.org
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