Dolphins by Rebekah

I did research on dolphins. I picked dolphins because they are amazing and very playful.                                                

I already know that are sea mammals. They can breath underwater for a very long time.  It has a blowhole to breath through when it is under the water. It lives in water, mostly oceans. They are in groups called pods.

The dolphins are 10 through 14 feet long.  Their weight is 1,100 pounds, most of the time.  Dolphins colors are gray and silver but, somethings light black. It has two flippers on each side. It has one fin on the top of it’s back. A blowhole on the forehead. Some have really long noses and sharp teeth or dull teeth.

Dolphins are a sea carnivores. It means that they are meat animals.They eat kinds of squid and small fish. They love and only eat meat. They just love eating meat.

I am going to talk about where they live.  They do not on a continent but, they live by north america. The oceans dolphins live in are Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. Their habitat is the ocean or the seas. Kids.nationalgeographic told me,”Some dolphins live in rivers in China, India, and South America.”

I learned how dolphins travel, sounds it makes,and how it lives. It travels in a pod while swimming. The sounds it makes are it squeaks, whistle, chirps and clicks etc….  How it lives is in a group not alone.  The group they travel in is called a pod.

Dolphins do not really affect people in a bad way. They affect people in a good way.  Dolphins play with humans and are very gentle.  Dolphins have saved people’s lives before.  They play with children. They are very playful.  They do not really affect people.  Here are interesting facts I found about dolphins. They are mammals in the oceans and seas.  Their life spain is 20 years to 40 years.  Their speed is 3-7 mphs and slower than a car.  They use body language to send messages.  Another word for it is called echolocation.  Livescience told me, “ Echolocation tells the dolphins the shape, speed, distance, and the location of the object.  “ Bottlenose dolphins send messages to one another in different ways.” Rita Ritchie and Patricia Corrigan wrote.

In conclusion, I learned a ton about my animal a dolphin. I wanted to know what it eats and it eats meat , squid, and small fish. Another question was are baby dolphins born alive or in eggs? They are born alive because their mammals. I was wondering do they squeak or whistle? They do both and chirp and click too. They use echolocation to call other dolphins. That is what I learned about dolphins.