Bottlenose Dolphin
By: C. H.

Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genius Species | Work Cited 

Kingdom: Animalia Return To Top

• Multicellular

• Heterotrophs

• Ingest and digest food

• Have specialized tissue to do different functions.

Phylum: Chordata Return To Top

• Bilateral system

• Segmented body and muscles

• Three germ layers

• Tail projecting longer

• Venternal heart

• Digestive system

• Bony and cartilaginous endoskeleton.

Class: Mammalia Return To Top

• Three middle ear bones

• Hair

• Mammary glands

• Hear sounds by a chain of three bones

• feeds new born with milk

• Have teeth and lower jaw

Order: Cetacea Return To Top

• Fusiform or streamlined body

• Paddle shaped front limbs

• No digits or claws

• Flat tail pointed to two horizontal tips

• Skull bone

• Thick blubber layer.

Family: Delphinidae Return To Top

• Small to medium sized

• Males are larger then females

• Have bulging fore heads

• Sleek and streamlined bodies

• Dorsal fins

• Color patters on bodies

Genius and Species: Turicops / Turiops Truncatus Return To Top

• Bottle shaped nose

• Migrates around the oceans

• Like shallow inshore waters like bays, lagoons, and large rivers.

    Bottlenose dolphins are like strands of silk gliding through the water. Bottlenose dolphins are located in the phylum chordata and are vertabrates. They have sleek, streamlined bodies to swim around in tropical waters and to escape from their predators.

    There are many different characteristics that bottlenose dolphins have. They have sleek streamlined, fusifrom bodies. This helps the dolphins to stream through the water faster. They also have a strong back fin. This helps them to get away from predators faster. Another characteristic is their skin color which is gray-green or gray-brown. This helps them to blend into their habitat to not be seen by their predators. The many characteristics of bottlenose dolphins help it survive.

    Bottlenose dolphins live in many different areas of water because this certain type of dolphin migrates all around the world oceans. Some of the bottlenose dolphins live in shallow areas like bays, lagoons, and large rivers. This is because so they can stay ashore and close to some land. They also live in large bodies of water like the Pacific Ocean. They live in large bodies of water in cooler and deeper parts of water. This is so they can swim around and be more free from the human life and to have a better source of getting food. Another reason of  why they migrate to different places is to follow around the fish or to follow the certain water temperature according to the different seasons. This is so they can survive in their habitat to get the important essentials that the bottlenose dolphins need.

    Bottlenose dolphins have many characteristics to help them survive in the ocean. To help protect bottlenose dolphins you should buy dolphin tuna.  

Gliding through water The dolphins stay together  In the big ocean

Fun Facts:

• Bottlenose dolphins live in many different places according to the different weather changes. 

• Bottlenose dolphins have pectoral fins to help them swim faster.

Work Cited:     

www.google.com. 09 Apr. 2003

http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Bottlenose/home.html . 09 Apr.

 2003http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Bottlenose/habdisdol.html. 09 Apr. 2003

http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Bottlenose/phychardol.html . 09 Apr.

 2003http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Bottlenose/dietdol.html . 09 Apr. 2003

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