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 Bottlenose Dolphin
Cool Facts: Dolphins are highly social and intelligent mammals, living in family groups called pods. They locate their prey using sonar, which allows sounds to bounce off fish indicating their location. Dolphins are air-breathers, taking in oxygen through their blowholes when they surface. They are highly skilled and fast swimmers and are famous for their breaching (jumping out of the water) displays.
Habitat: Bottlenose dolphins live in temperate, tropical waters throughout the world. Around North America, they range from Northern California to Mexico in the Pacific Ocean, and from Nova Scotia to southern of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean.
Threats: Water pollution, oil and gas exploration, by-catch (when they are caught by accident in commercial fishing nets) and over-fishing of their natural prey by humans.
For more information, or to find out how to further support WWF’s projects visit:
worldwildlife.org (USA only)
wwf.ca (Canada only)
panda.org (All other countries)
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