"Tursiops truncatus"
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All animals are from the kingdom Anamalia
Animal cells lack the rigid cell walls that characterize plant cell
All animals are multicellular.
All animals are heterotrophs.
9 to 10 million animals inhabit the earth.
Most animals are capable of complex and relatively rapid movement compared to plants and other organisms
It stiffens the body and acts as support during locomotion
Chordates are defined as organisms that possess a structure called a notochord, at least during some part of their development.
It is a single celled organism.
Has a complete digestive system
All share three different characteristics: three middle ear bones, hair and mammary glands
Mammals feed their newborn young with milk, a substance rich in fats and protein that is produced by modified sweat glands called mammary glands.
The Class Mammalia includes around 5000 species placed in 26 orders
Mammals hear sounds after they are transmitted from the outside world to their inner ears by a chain of three bones, the malleus, incus, and stapes.
Two of these, the malleus and incus, are derived from bones involved in jaw articulation in most other vertebrates.
Mammals have hair. Adults of some species lose most of their hair, but hair is present at least during some phase of the ontogeny of all species
All the animals under Cetacea are very intelligent
all heterotrophs
over 76 species
Their hind limbs are now absent
all dolphins must hold their breath for two hours
Dolphins weight is so delicate they must be born at sea.
Delphinids are small to medium-sized cetaceans, ranging from about 1.5 m in length and 50 kg weight to almost 10 m in length and 7000 kg.
Males are usually larger than females. The shape of the head of many delphinids is distinctive; the forehead appears to bulge over the beak-like rostrum due to the presence of a lens-shaped fatty deposit called a "melon."
In the delphinid skull, the facial depression is broadly expanded
Delphinids are found in all oceans and seas
Delphinids appear to be highly intelligent, adapting quickly and flexibly to novel situations
Dolphins may work cooperatively to assist an individual that is ill or injured
Tursiops truncatus is found in warm temperate and tropical oceans and seas worldwide
In waters of the United States, bottlenose dolphins range as far north as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the summer and in the west to Point Conception, California.
Year-round they can be found off the coasts of Hawaii and Florida.
The bottlenose dolphin is fond of warm, shallow inshore waters.
In certain areas it ranges as far offshore as the edge of the continental shelf.
The bottle nosed dolphin is the largest of the beaked dolphins
The bottle nosed dolphin only ways up to 80 pounds.
Lives in shallow tropical waters.
Dolphins skin color is a grayish blue.
They eat small fish like anchovies.
They swim 20 to 30 miles per hour.
They obey commands from people.
Live in warm and cool waters.
Sharks are their enemies.
They are cute.
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