Train Dolphins

Females also have a set of slits housing the mammary glands

Nematodes, tapeworms, and parasitic flukes have been found to infest their internal organs

During the day, they break up into smaller groups and come near shore to rest and play

Dolphins are highly social, playful, curious and intelligent

Female Bottlenose Dolphins live for about 40 years, whereas males rarely live more than 30 years

Dolphins have an exquisite anti-jamming ability associated with their echolocation

When not echolocating, dolphins rely on their extremely sensitive hearing for information about their environment, including sounds made by other dolphins

It is thought that the tuna may be trying to take advantage of the dolphin’s superior food-finding talents

Animals such as dolphins that are near the top of the marine food chain, receive even higher doses as they feed on animals of the second and third trophic levels

Gestation lasts approximately 12 months and there is a three or four year gap between calving

They have often been observed interacting with other species

Mead and Perrin went some way to redress this balance but the Clymene Dolphin is still one of the least understood of all cetaceans

Once the Act goes into effect in 1994, any country that continues to set purse-seines on schools of dolphins in order to catch their tuna will have trade embargoes placed on them by the United States

Orca grabbing a sea lion from the beach in Patagonia

In the town of Laguna in south Brazil, a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins is known to drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in shallow waters

The Pantropical Spotted Dolphin is very active and is prone to making large splashy leaps from the sea

Males are not present during or after a birth at Dolphin Research Center, as they can present a danger to a small calf

Late 1980s: Environmentalists started to pay attention to the Chinese White Dolphin population

Quite a number of animals, including dogs, sheep, sea lions and parrots, have demonstrated to be able to almost instantaneously learn complex behaviours

Using a fish only as reward is not very useful, since delivering a fish when a dolphin is at the top of a jump is impossible

If a business imports fur seal skin wallets and is trying to get other businesses to buy them for resale

Ensign Darwin was a Bottlenose Dolphin crew member of seaQuest on the television series seaQuest DSV

Using this amazing skill, a dolphin can create an acoustic picture of its surroundings and can determine the size, shape, direction of movement and distance of objects in the water

Very common in some places twenty years ago it has disappeared since

The film stars Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan

The Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world

A few thousand bottlenose dolphins are believed to inhabit the waters around Hawaii, usually living in groups of two to fifteen individuals