Train Dolphins

What we do know is that dolphins and whales have rather large brains and are capable of performing some very complex tasks

They learn different tasks at different rates, faster than some species and slower than others

Dolphins must maintain a streamlined body to move efficiently through the ocean

Possible natural predators are the Orca and Bull Shark

Unfortunately, this has proven difficult to regulate and many subsistence hunters have bowed to commercial incentives

While certain Orcas that eat other mammals prey on the dolphin, other non-mammal eating Orcas have been seen swimming with dolphins

Researchers are still studying the behaviors and situations when dolphins use body language and there are still many questions regarding the meaning of any specific body movement

In the Pacific Ocean, bottlenose dolphins range from northern Japan to southern Australia and New Zealand, and from southern California down to the coast of Chile

They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid

The taxonomy of the Sousa genus is complicated and disputed

‘ You have to understand, dolphins are very smart animals

This has been determined by doing EEG studies on dolphins

If they remained in only one small area constantly, they would soon exhaust the available food supply; therefore, they tend to leave and then revisit various feeding grounds on a periodic basis

Often, animal behaviour is misinterpreted and viewed from a human perspective

Although they live in water, dolphins are mammals and breath air through their blowhole, which is located at the top of their head

Just as a flagstick is a target that directs a golfer toward a golf hole, a target directs an animal toward a position or direction

Like the other marine animals we have examined so far; the Hawaiian monk seal, the green sea turtle and the humpback whale, dolphins have become marvelously adapted to life in the sea

When a shoal of fish is found dolphins work as a team to keep the fish close together and maximize the harvest

Once public sentiment changes, political sentiment is often soon to follow, bringing about the establishment new laws and regulations needed to protect species

If a fishing boat allows much more than the legal limit of dolphins to get caught in their nets

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

Across the table were dolphin trainer Armando and his Swiss wife Heidi

Spotted dolphins are a relatively small species, growing to a maximum length of approximately 2

The Bottlenose Dolphin normally lives in groups called pods, usually containing up to 12 animals

The study of animal behavior can extend from simple to very complex