{"id":311,"date":"2014-06-30T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=311"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:58:42","slug":"dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/nz\/discover\/animals\/sea-life\/dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"10 facts about bottlenose dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Take a deep breath, gang, and join Nat Geo Kids as we learn ten fab facts about one seriously <i>splash<\/i>-tastic sea creature &#8211; in our bottlenose dolphin facts!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Facts about bottlenose dolphins<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104255\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bottlenose Dolphin Facts\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-2.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Bottlenose dolphins are <strong>marine mammals<\/strong> that live in tropical and temperate oceans (oceans with mild temperatures) around the world. This includes the waters off the UK and Ireland, where you can spot them swimming and playing in bays and river estuaries!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> These beautiful creatures have a short thick beak (as their name suggests!) and a curved mouth, giving the appearance that they are always smiling. They are usually grey in colour, and measure around <strong>two to four metres\u00a0in length<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.natgeokids.co.uk\/product\/national-geographic-kids-ocean-activity-and-colouring-book\/https:\/\/shop.natgeokids.co.uk\/product\/national-geographic-kids-ocean-activity-and-colouring-book\/?article_link=NGKwebsite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308891\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Activity-Colouring-Book.jpg\" alt=\"If you love this article, you'll love our Ocean Activity and Colouring Book is written on the post, which shows a book called Ocean Activity and Colouring Book, as well as a blue jellyfish\" width=\"1042\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Activity-Colouring-Book.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Activity-Colouring-Book-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Activity-Colouring-Book-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Activity-Colouring-Book-768x626.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> Social creatures, bottlenose dolphins travel in groups, called &#8220;<strong>pods<\/strong>&#8220;, of around 10-15. In these groups they play and hunt together, as well as cooperate to raise young dolphin calves and help each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Bottlenose dolphins are super swimmers, gliding through the water using their curved dorsal fin on their back, a powerful tail and pointed flippers. They can reach speeds over <strong>30km an hour<\/strong> and dive as deep as 250m below the surface!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-dolphin-facts-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104256\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-dolphin-facts-3.jpg\" alt=\"Bottlenose Dolphin Facts\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-dolphin-facts-3.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-dolphin-facts-3-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> These cool creatures are awesome acrobats, too, and can be seen flipping (or &#8220;<strong>breaching<\/strong>&#8220;) out of the water. In fact, they can launch themselves up to five meters out of the water before crashing back down with a splash! There are different theories as to why they do this &#8211; it could be to get a better view of things in the distance, clean parasites off their bodies, communicate with other pods or just for good fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong>6)<\/strong> Although they live underwater, the bottlenose dolphin must come up to the surface to breath air. It breathes through what&#8221;s called a &#8220;<strong>blowhole<\/strong>&#8220;, a hole at the top of its head. These clever creatures can open this hole when inhaling and exhaling out of the water, and close it when below the ocean surface. They can hold their breath underwater for around seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.natgeokids.co.uk\/product\/national-geographic-kids-oceans-find-it-explore-it\/?article_link=NGKwebsite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308890 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Find-It-Explore-It.jpg\" alt=\"You'll love our educational magazines for all ages! is written on the post, which shows a book called Oceans Find It! Explore it! which has a clownfish on the front\" width=\"1042\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Find-It-Explore-It.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Find-It-Explore-It-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Find-It-Explore-It-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NGK-Oceans-Find-It-Explore-It-768x626.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>7)<\/strong>\u00a0Bottlenose dolphins are kings of communication! They send each other messages in different ways &#8211; they squeak and whistle and also use body language, leaping out of the water, snapping their jaws and even butting heads!<\/p>\n<p><strong>8)<\/strong>\u00a0These magnificent mammals also produce high-pitched clicks to help them navigate and find food &#8211; a process called &#8220;<strong>echolocation<\/strong>&#8220;. When the clicking sounds hit an object in the water &#8211; such as a rock or fish &#8211; they bounce back to the dolphin as echoes. From this, the super swimmers can work out the location, size and shape of the object. Cool, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104259\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bottlenose Dolphin Facts\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bottlenose-Dolphin-Facts-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9)<\/strong> Carnivores, our finned friends eat mostly fish, but will also eat crustaceans such as shrimp and squid, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10)<\/strong> Thankfully, bottlenose dolphins are not classed as endangered. However, illegal hunting, fishing nets and pollution pose threats to these incredible creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Love reading about sea life? Then be sure to check out our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/nz\/discover\/animals\/sea-life\/humpback-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humpback whale facts<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Image \u24d2<\/strong> Picture of dolphin stretched out above water: Photograph by Kjersti Joergensen, Dreamtime. Picture of a dolphin closeup in water: Photograph by Michael Price, Dreamtime. Picture of a dolphin jumping: Photograph by Avslt71, Dreamtime.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a deep breath, gang, and join Nat Geo Kids as we learn ten fab facts about one seriously splash-tastic sea creature &#8211; in our bottlenose dolphin facts! Facts about bottlenose dolphins 1) Bottlenose dolphins are marine mammals that live in tropical and temperate oceans (oceans with mild temperatures) around the world. 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