Dolphins are marine mammals and share many characteristics with land mammals, such as breathing air, giving birth, being-warm blooded, and producing milk. They also share other physical characteristics with land mammals that affect how they move, which we’ll explain shortly. Dolphins belong to the cetacean family, composed of around 80 – 90 different species of …
When it comes to the dolphin species, all dolphins are part of the toothed whale suborder, and teeth are one of the characteristics present among all the toothed whale families. Although all dolphins are equipped with teeth, not all species use their teeth for eating prey or tearing flesh. Depending on the dolphin’s species, some …
The Atlantic spotted dolphin is a marine mammal and belongs to the cetacean family which also includes whales and porpoises. These dolphins can be found swimming in the Golf Stream, which is located in the North Atlantic Ocean. As the name suggests the Atlantic spotted dolphin gets its name from the fact that it lives …
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Maui’s dolphin (also known as Popoto) is the smallest known dolphin in existence. These dolphins are a subspecies of Hector’s dolphin, which prior to 2002 was considered the North Island Hector’s dolphin. It wasn’t until further research clarified skeletal and genetic differences among the two types of dolphins that Maui’s dolphin was given its own classification as a …
Whales are marine animals and belong to the cetacean family. Because whales are mammals they share several characteristics that are common among mammals such as being warm-blooded, requiring air to breathe, nursing baby whales with milk and giving birth compared to fish and other aquatic species that lay eggs. Collectively there are about known 80 whale species that are alive today, if …
