Jump the Waves with the Dusky Dolphin By

Jump the Waves with the Dusky Dolphin!! By: Molly Porter

In this report you are going to be learning so much about the dusky dolphin. We are going to recognize the dusky dolphin in its natural habitat, what it eats, how it moves, noises it makes, predators, prey, and survival adaptations. Now lets learn about the dusky dolphin. The dusky dolphin looks like a shark but way nicer the shark looks really mean. Dusky dolphins are really cute. The dusky dolphins are really smart and nice.

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How to spot a dusky dolphin!!! Their colors are grey, blue, black, and white. Their skin is very smooth. They are very fast and almost look like a mermaid swimming through the water when they go as fast as they can. It looks like a lot of other dolphins but a couple of different colors so you just might mistake it with some other dolphins. It has a rounded black beak and a tall curved dorsal fin. Now I hope you know how to spot a Dusky Dolphins.

How do dusky dolphins Move and Make Noises? Click here to hear the sound of the squeaky sound of the dusky dolphin. Dusky dolphins communicate by using whistles, squeaks and clicks. It moves its tail kind of like a mermaid, except a little bit different. It also has flipper like things that help it drift through the water. They also jump out of the air for fun and some times since they cant breath under water because they are Mammals they do it sometimes to take a breath and sometimes they do it several times and sometimes they even do it a lot of times.

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What does a dusky dolphin eat? By congregating in large groups dusky dolphins are able to trap vast schools of fish so they have the best opportunity to feed, by travelling through the waters in a line and pushing the shoal into an area where it is trapped. Prey depend largely on the area in which the dusky dolphins are feeding but they most commonly consume anchovies, sardines and mackerel in shallower waters, squid at middepths and larger prey including hake and octopus in deeper ocean.

Dusky Dolphins have Enemies? Dusky dolphins have quit a few enemy's/predators. Pods of killer whales ( to which they are related) are the main predators of the dusky dolphin along with some large species of shark that venture into the shallower coastal water.

How does the dusky dolphin protect itself? Dusky dolphins have lots, and lots of ways to defend itself. They sometimes use their head, beak, and tail to bonk the enemy's head or something because all dolphins are really smart. They can swim so fast that it would just run away, but if the predator or enemy would fallow they swim so fast that when their tail moves back and forth it makes bubbles in the water and it goes in the enemy’s face and distracts it and there was only one dolphin.

Conclusion Thank you so much for reading about the dusky dolphin. I hope you understand a lot more about it, like how to spot a dusky dolphin, how they eat, there habitat, enemy’s, and much more. Can you tell me five different interesting facts about the dusky dolphin that you did not know before.

Bibliography • a-z animals. com • World Book Online Encyclopedia