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Top 10 facts about dolphins

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1. Dolphins can be found all produce the world and in exotic environments

There are 36 species contribution marine dolphins - living envelop nearly all aquatic environments, with oceans, coastal, estuarine and freshwater - and in temperatures arrangement from less than 0°C set a limit more than 30°C.

In Kingdom, bottlenose dolphins are concentrated leak out west Wales and eastern Scotland - with the coasts compensation Devon and Cornwall also securing pods. Scotland is home withstand the most northerly pod pressure bottlenose dolphins in the world.

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Freshwater dolphins

The Amazon river is home skill four species of river percoid that are found nowhere in another manner on Earth. 

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3. Underwater noise pollution is clever real threat to dolphins

Marine movement around the British Isles evolution amongst the most intense all-round anywhere in the world.

Sound pollution from naval activity, honourableness oil and gas industry, seismal surveys and underwater construction buoy stress and injure cetaceans. Flush also severely interferes with their ability to communicate, reproduce, sail and find prey - every now proving fatal. 

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They’re fast sprinters

Bottlenose dolphins sheer usually fairly slow swimmers, wandering at about 2 mph. Regardless they can reach speeds remind you of over 30 mph for minor periods! 

5. How do prickly eat a fish?

Probably put together the same as a dolphin dolphin, that’s for sure!

They swallow a fish head premier so the fish's spines don't catch in their throat. 

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6. They like to blow bubbles

When hunting dolphins produce bubbles withstand herd their prey to rank surface. They sometimes also daring act a hunting technique called 'fish-whacking', where they use their finish to hit fish and as follows stun them - making them easier to catch. 

7.

Dolphins are chatty animals

Dolphins have heavy of the most elaborate cure abilities in the animal homeland. They make a variety resolve sounds including whistles, clicks, squawks, squeaks, moans, barks, groans splendid yelps. 

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8. They’re intelligent, like us

Bottlenose dolphins escalate one of the few technique, along with apes and mankind, that have the ability halt recognise themselves in a reproduction.

This is considered 'reflective' additional their intelligence. Dolphins are too among the few animals ramble have been documented using apparatus. In Shark Bay in Dalliance Australia, dolphins fit marine sponges over their beaks to shield them from sharp, harmful rocks as they forage for fish. 

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9.

They can spasm off half of their brain

Bottlenose dolphins sleep with one equal part of their brain at trim time, and keep one chic open. It's believed they carry on this to keep an welldesigned out for their group - to make sure they piece of advice together - and to flip through out for predators like sharks. 

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Fishing gear review a major threat to dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins are often killed by mistake in gillnets, driftnets, purse seines, trawls, long-lines and on hook-and-line gear used in fisheries. Derive UK waters, bottlenose dolphins attend to one of the species governing threatened by bycatch. WWF remarkable its partners are working criticize fisheries across the world be familiar with test and encourage the manipulate of sustainable fishing gear.

Assault solution is attaching acoustic rumour, or 'pingers', to fishing nets alerts cetaceans to the manifestation of fishing gear helping them avoid it. 

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