Tursiops truncatus

Bottlenose dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

The bottlenose dolphin scientifically named Tursiops truncatus lives throughout the Earth’s oceans except the Arctic ocean. Its domain is Eukaryote and kingdom is Animalia. Also its phylum is Chordata, its class is Mammalia, and its order is Cetacea. Lastly, it’s family is Delphinidae, its genus is Tursiops, and finally, its species is  Tursiops truncatus. The bottlenose dolphin has bilateral symmetry. It is very social and highly intelligent. Tursiops truncatus is also grey and has an average mass of 400 kg. It has a behavioral adaptation of almost always swimming with another bottlenose. It also has two structural adaptations one is that they have up to 28 teeth to chew their food and they use there fins to swim through the water to catch prey. An interesting fact about the bottlenose dolphin is that they are extremely intelligent and very loud. They are predators to small fish and squid. However their predators are bull sharks, tiger sharks, and dusky sharks. Tursiops truncatus are also heterotrophic and endothermic. I have loved researching this amazing organism. 

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