Tuesday 18 June 2013

INFO report Dolphins

Dolphins
Dolphins are very large aquatic mammals. They are very playful mammals that can live in Atlantic sea water, India’s sea water, Pacific Ocean and Mediterrean. They are sea mammals that like to be companied by humans. They sometimes swim in groups over 1000 dolphins.



Dolphins eat fish like herring, cod and mackerel. Some other dolphins eat squid. Large other dolphins eat squid. Large dolphins may eat other marine animals such as sea lions, turtles, large squid, walruses, seals, sharks, sea birds and even whales. Some other dolphins eat plankton and krill.



Dolphins habitat can be found all around the world. They can be found in many seas around the world. It depends on the species as where you might find them. They also live along the coastline and sometimes off shore. The bottlenose dolphin is very common as it can be found nearly everywhere.


Different dolphins have different behaviors. Some dolphins sometimes ride on waves or sometimes go along sides of boats. Dolphins love to play with humans and some dolphins love to play around on waves and some love jumping. Dolphins have been seen jumping up to 4.9 meters. Dolphins are creatures that if you are fishing they would come to the edge of the boat and would want you to play with you.


Dolphins have tails at the back of their body. Dolphins also have a fin in the middle of their body. It is instead of legs. At the front of them they have a beak and in the dolphins mouth there are pointed teeth. Dolphins also have two brains. Also they have very silky skin from being in the water. Their teeth are quite pointy so they can eat their food depending on how big or small the food is.


There is 41 species of dolphins. some of the dolphins are, long beaked common dolphin, short beaked common dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, indo pacific bottlenose dolphin, northern right whale dolphin, southern right whale dolphin and many, many more.


Dolphins are mammals that are very playful. They belong to a family of marine mammals known as cetaceans. They love company of humans.
By Alyssa

3 comments:

  1. This is a great info report Alyssa. You have structured it perfectly and achieved the success criteria! Well done!

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  2. Great Alyssa I loved the 4Th paragraph about there behaviour

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  3. What a cool report Alyssa! You told me lots of thing I didn't know about dolphins eg. they sometimes jump up to 4.9m!

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