Species from the Peruvian Jungle

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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.