| English Name: Gray Dolphin |
Scientific Name: Inia Geoffrensis
Spanish Name: Delfin Gris
Size: 7.5 - 9 feet
Life span: from 20-30 years |
Diet:
Gray dolphins eat sardines and
mullets, including other fish. It also eats pleagic fish, makerel, herring,
cod, squids, sardines, cuttlefish and shrimps.
Predators:
Large sharks such as tiger sharks,
dusky sharks and bull sharks, most of the sharks are the predators. If
the male dolphins win a fight with the sharks they eat them.
Adaptations:
They can see better in the ocean and when they are
in the rivers.
Interesting Facts:
Threr acuatic mammals by inteligens. It can
travel humndreds of miles un 1 day or 2. It looses its teeth each
time it eats a fish. When the male is hungry, it killes his wife
and babies to get food. They are very rare.
Bibliography:
(ts.com/photo/39688970/39689203oQLrSa
http://www.wiu.edu/users/emp102/DolphinWeb/diet.htm
http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/escomputer/AnimalProjects/sanders/adam.htm#Interesting%20facts
Rodriguez, felix Fauna S.A Pamplona Saluat de ediciones
1994
Research by: Victoria L.
Irene G.
Nicolas C. |