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| | Bottlenose Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dolphins are predators however, and they also show aggressive behaviors. | | | Direct interaction with dolphins is used in the therapy of severely handicapped children. | | | The dolphins were not trained for this behavior; the collaboration has been going on at least since 1847. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_Dolphin
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| | DRC - Atantic Bottlenose Dolphin Physiology |
| | Dolphins have no gag reflex, since the trachea and esophagus are completely separated. | | | A dolphin, however, is able to handle the quick change in blood pressure because of a special adaptation called the retia mirabilia. | | | This is one of the many internal physiological structures leading scientists to believe that dolphins and whales evolved from a terrestrial ancestor. |
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http://www.dolphins.org/Learn/lmm-phys.htm
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| | Chesapeake Bay Program - Critter of the Month |
| | The dolphin's acute vision appears to be due to adaptions of the lens and cornea that compensate for the refraction of light that occurs during the transition from aquatic to aerial vision. | | | However, many interesting behaviors that are common in captivity have been observed in the wild as well. | | | The blood circulation in the flippers also helps maintain their body temperature. |
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http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/bottlenose_dolphin.cfm
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| | OSU MMP Bottlenose Dolphin Research |
| | The objectives for this pilot test for small inshore cetaceans were to: (1) determine the utility of the attachment, (2) examine the dolphin’s movements, and (3) characterize the dolphin’s dive behavior. | | | Satellite telemetry was demonstrated as an effective means of documenting the movements and dive behavior of a small inshore cetacean. | | | Abstract: Little is known about the behavior of offshore dolphin populations. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/groups/marinemammal/Bottlenose.htm
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| | Photoidentification research in the Cetacean Behavior Laboratory soon discovered that Pacific coast bottlenose dolphins were not as residential nor was their social ecology as structured as in other coastal study locations (Weller 1991). | | | The focus of the lab's behavioral work has been to document the impact of a wide range of temporal and ecological variables on dolphin behavior states such as travel, feed and social. | | | Barbara’s work, which was conducted between March 1993 and December 1994, examined the abundance, distribution and social ecology of bottlenose dolphins in Turneffe Atoll. |
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http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/CBL/Research.html
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| | Bottlenose dolphin |
| | Population assessment is further complicated by shifts in populations due to changing environmental conditions. | | | Some appear to have been released as part of population and behavior studies, other may have been captured for public display in Japan. | | | These wounds can be fatal, if the spine punctures vital organs, such as the lungs or liver (Walsh et al, 1988). |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/tursiops.htm
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus |
| | This allows more oxygen to go to the brain and heart instead of the non-vital organs. | | | Males sleep just beneath the surface and rise by reflex to breathe every few minutes. | | | Of those studied, 85% of the long-term residents had skin disorders, and 40% of these had the skin disorders for over 6 years. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/cetacean/bottlenosedolph.html
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| | Tursiops truncatus, Bottlenose Dolphin at MarineBio.org |
| | Dolphins will support members of their own kind at the surface of the water however, to permit them to breathe when they are in distress. | | | They are also used widely in research work involving cetacean physiology, psychology and sociology. | | | Each dolphin appears to have its own distinctive whistle by which it communicates a limited amount of information on its identity, location, and condition to other dolphins. |
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http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=33
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| | MSN Encarta - Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | This distinctive tattering has been used by researchers to identify and track individuals and groups. | | | For this reason most studies of echolocation in dolphins have used bottlenose dolphins as subjects. | | | Bottlenose dolphins are often considered the most adaptable of the cetaceans because they live amid industrial activity around harbors and ship channels in many parts of the world. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579876/Bottlenose_Dolphin.html
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| | SharkFriends Bottlenose Dolphin Page |
| | Eating and hunting habits vary greatly for Bottlenose dolphins depending on their local circumstances and area conditions. | | | The sociable dolphins that have long mixed with humans, such as Flipper, are of this species. | | | Size and other features also vary depending on whether the dolphins live inshore or offshore and what part of the world they live. |
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http://www.sharkfriends.com/bottlenose.html
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| | Dolphin -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife |
| | Sometimes, the mother will get help from another female (referred to as an "auntie") in caring for offspring. | | | Bottlenose dolphins are social animals well known for their playful and carefree nature. | | | Social hierarchies have been noted in dolphin interactions. |
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http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/dolphin.html
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| | San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Dolphin |
| | Because of their bone and body structure, and their ability to hold more oxygen in their bodies than humans can, dolphins are more buoyant–they float better. | | | Dolphins also work together to help when one animal is sick, hurt, or giving birth. | | | Dolphins that live in rivers have much less well-developed vision, probably because they live in murky water where good eyesight wouldn’t help them. |
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http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-dolphin.html
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| | ACS bottlenose dolphin Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society |
| | FEEDING Feeding behaviors are diverse, primarily involving individual prey capture, but sometimes involving coordinated efforts to catch food, feeding in association with human fishing, and chasing fish into mudbanks. | | | The bottlenose dolphin (like the beluga) has more flexibility in its neck than other oceanic dolphins, because 5 of the 7 neck vertebrae are not fused together as in the other oceanic dolphins. | | | Dolphins with disease symptoms appeared to have elevated levels of PCB's, leading researchers to conclude that pollutants may be playing a role in these events. |
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http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/btlnose.htm
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| | Minnesota Zoo/Animals/Discovery Bay |
| | The sleek torpedo-shaped body is padded with a layer of insulating blubber. | | | The broad horizontal flukes move up and down to propel the dolphin through the water and the single, rather curved dorsal fin on their back gives the animal stabilization as it swims through the water. | | | The pectoral fins are medium size, pointed and aid in steering. |
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http://www.mnzoo.com/animals/discovery_bay/dolphin_1.asp
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| | Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP |
| | Because these stock delineations are often difficult to determine, population assessments should be considered dynamic, ongoing processes. | | | Bottlenose dolphins are quite active (especially when feeding or socializing), often slapping the water with their flukes, leaping, and performing other aerial behaviors. | | | The bottlenose dolphin social relationships in a fission-fusion society. |
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http://seamap.env.duke.edu/species/tsn/180426
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| | Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | (They use the blowhole to breathe, but they have no sense of smell!) A dolphin’s flippers actually have finger-like bones inside! | | | The dolphin’s echo-system or SONAR, may be able to see inside other animals. | | | Dolphins may seem friendly, but they are still wild animals. |
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| | Factsheets: Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | A guide to the sea mammals of Australasia. | | | This is the classic dolphin of film and oceanarium fame and is probably the marine mammal most people recognise. | | | Overall the body colour is a series of grey tones with an indistinct paler grey wash on the flanks fading into an off-white belly. |
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http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/bottlenose_dolphin.htm
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| | Detailed Information about Bottlenose Dolphins |
| | Dolphins rely on behavioral signals to indicate their willingness to mate. | | | Dolphins can recognize some colors and their pupils can adjust to light and dark changes in their environment. | | | Dolphins have very sensitive skin, which is easily damaged but also heals quickly. |
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http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/education/cetaceans/bottlenose2.htm
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) |
| | Bottlenose dolphins may be seen in groups numbering up to several hundred but smaller social units of two to 15 are more common. | | | Bottlenoses may be able to adapt to man’s activities but probably are readily affected by pollution and would make a good "indicator species" signalling the overuse and excessive pollution of Gulf waters. | | | Bottlenoses are also known to chase prey into very shallow water and may lunge onto mud banks and shoals in pursuit of panicked fish. |
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http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/turstrun.htm
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| | MRC - Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | Dolphin are hunters but when people offer them food they lose their fear of humans. | | | Dolphins are in the whale family and can stay under water for 3 - 4 minutes, but they need to come to the surface to breath because they are mammals like us. | | | Dolphins learn to associate people with food and can get entangled with fishing hooks and lines and die. |
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| | Bottlenose dolphins can be wounded or killed in collisions with boats and feeding wild dolphins is thought to negatively affect the behavior of individuals and local populations. | | | The natural history of bottlenose dolphins has been studied in detail. | | | Bottlenose dolphins lack a distinctive color pattern, which is characteristic of other species. |
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin by Kaitlin |
| | Bottlenose dolphins live in different places during different parts of their life, like when they're breeding or having babies. | | | Dolphins use echolocation to find their food and to get though murky water when they cannot see. | | | Its calves are born live and the mother dolphin immediately pushes the baby to the surface to take its first breath of air. |
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| | Bottlenose Dolphins: Animal Information, Pictures, Map--National Geographic Kids |
| | Scientists believe that the sounds travel through the dolphin’s lower jaw to its inner ear and then are transmitted to the brain for analysis. | | | But bottlenose dolphins make their own kind of “music.” Many of the sounds they make could be imitated by holding a balloon tightly by the neck, then letting the air out faster and slower. | | | Each individual dolphin seems to have its own “signature whistle,” but the sounds we can’t hear may be the most important. |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0108/dolphins2.html
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| | BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN - ZoomWhales.com |
| | Bottlenose dolphins are in no danger as their numbers are abundant. | | | Bottlenose dolphins live in different areas during the different parts of their life cycle, for example, breeding and giving birth. | | | Bottlenose Dolphins have stream-lined bodies and a rounded head with a distinctive beak. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Bottledolphin.shtml
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| | Atlantic bottlenose dolphin |
| | This dolphin has a robust body with a short stubby rostrum (beak), which earned it the name “bottlenose.” | | | The social structure of the dolphins at the Aquarium is modeled after life in the wild. | | | The bottlenose dolphin is perhaps one of the most commonly seen cetaceans in the world. |
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http://www.aqua.org/animals_atlanticbottlenosedolphin.html
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | One interesting fact about the Bottlenose Dolphin is that they have no jaw muscles for chewing. | | | The Bottlenose Dolphin is very sociable and they generally live in groups. | | | Bottlenose Dolphins have dark blue-gray to brown gray skin. |
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| | Boattalk.com - The Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | There is a variation in size and in certain physical characteristics of the Bottlenose, according to the distribution of each individual. | | | Even with these variations, this species is still the most recognizable of all dolphins. | | | Made famous by the television show "Flipper," the Bottlenose Dolphin is, much like its television personality, a lively and robust animal. |
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http://www.boattalk.com/whales/bottlenosedolphin.htm
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | Mothers usually have babies from March – May. They nurse their babies for about a year. | | | Usually dolphins cooperate with each other when hunting for food. | | | Echolocation is when a dolphin makes a range of clicks and whistles and “sees” by listening to the returning sounds. |
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http://www.skokie69.k12.il.us/Edison/studentprojects/2002-03/114/Dolphin.htm
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) |
| | There are stories about wild dolphins aiding or interacting with humans. | | | Bottlenose dolphins usually travel in groups of 10-25 individuals. | | | Bottlenose dolphins are the most studied cetacean in the wild because they live near coasts, and in captivity because they adapt well to oceanariums. |
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http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/education/cetaceans/bottlenose1.htm
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| | Wolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Kekaimalu did not mother the calf (this is not uncommon in captive dolphins and was probably not related to her being a hybrid), but it was successfully hand-reared. | | | Herds of false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins associate together in the wild and there are unsubstantiated tales of natural hybrids between the two species. | | | Although they have been reported to exist in the wild, there are currently only two in captivity, both at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. |
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| | Whale Songs * Cetacean Information * Bottlenose Dolphins |
| | They commonly associate with other dolphin species, and sometimes they may interbreed. | | | Bottlenose Dolphins live in fairly open groups, generally containing no more than 20 animals, but large herds have been seen offshore. | | | There is current controversy in the US senate about the import ban on tuna caught with large dolphin by-catch - this is something you may wish to find out more about. |
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http://www.whalesongs.org/cetacean/bottlenose_dolphin/home.html
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| | All About Dolphins: Index of Questions |
| | I also answered some other questions from students in my interview. | | | I've tried to guess what some of your questions will be and provide answers. | | | In fact, we know very little about the lives of dolphins in the ocean. |
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| | Digimorph - Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin) |
| | Endocranial surfaces, volumes, and interconnectivities of extant and fossil odontocetes potentially offer information on the general architecture of the brain and on the structure of the specialized cetacean circulatory system. | | | SDSNH 21212 is a fine example of the 'coastal form' of the bottlenose dolphin - a variety of the species which may eventually be accorded sub-specific status (James Mead, personal communication). | | | The other group of extant whales are the baleen whales, or Mysticeti, which are characterized by plates of baleen that hang from their upper jaws. |
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| | bottlenose dolphin - definition of bottlenose dolphin by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus - the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform | | | dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises |
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| | WhaleTimes Fishin' for Facts: Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | Bottlenose dolphins can reach lengths up to 12 feet and weigh up to 600 lb. | | | trained dolphin, named Tuffy, went as deep as 1,795 ft, but that's not considered a typical depth. | | | Bottlenose dolphins are found all over the world in temperate and tropical oceans (in other words, not polar). |
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| | W. North Atlantic Coastal Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | The bottlenose dolphin has a medium sized, robust body, a moderately falcate dorsal fin and dark coloration, ranging from light gray to black dorsally and laterally, with a light belly. | | | Possible causes include brevetoxin produced by red tide organisms, environmental contaminants, or natural diseases. | | | Parasites and diseases -- During 1987-88 a massive die-off affected the western North Atlantic coastal bottlenose dolphin population. |
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http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/species/Cetaceans/coastalbottlenose.html
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| | Bottlenose Dolphin |
| | This is "Flipper", the friendly and common dolphin species seen so often in aquarium dolphin shows. | | | You can see the inshore form from the beach, at such locations as Grand Isle State Park and the East Jetty in Cameron. | | | This photo was taken on the way in from the September 1995 trip. |
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| | Previews of bottlenose dolphin images |
| | One form is found near the coast in warmer water, the other form lives off shore in deeper and colder water. | | | There are actually two kinds of bottlenose dolphin (tusiops truncatus). | | | Put them on other servers or online services. |
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| | Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin Proposal |
| | However, a ban on trade in animals from this population would not be difficult to enforce because the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin is both geographically and genetically distinct from other bottlenose dolphins, even those in the nearby Mediterranean and East North Atlantic. | | | CITES in Santiago: 54 Decisions That Will Affect the International Wildlife Trade | | | The habitat that remains has been damaged by extensive pollution, coastal development, vessel traffic, and over-fishing. |
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