The whole year a round you can hear dolphins whistle and echolocate in Skjálfandi bay. The white beaked dolphin is the most common dolphin species in Icelandic waters.īelow are two sound examples recorded in Skjálfandi Bay.
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How to prepare for your whale watching tour.Useful info about whale watching in Húsavík.Sails, Lights & Winter Nights from Reykjavík.And they can’t smell with this nose!īottlenose dolphins have eighty to a hundred pointed teeth, which they use to grab the slippery fish.Whale Watching Tours from Husavik Iceland Did you know that such a blowhole is actually their nostril? They can close this with a lid when they go underwater. Their thick layer of mud keeps them warm in the water.ĭolphins breathe through the blowhole on top of their head, which is directly connected to the lungs. They have three types of fins: a strong tail fin for speed, pectoral fins for steering and the dorsal fin for stability in the water, much like a boat keel. And you can see how fast they can do that during our dolphin presentation Oceanica! Will you come and have a look soon? Physiqueĭolphins have a streamlined body that allows them to easily glide through the water. The calf drinks milk from its mother for about two years, but after a few months it becomes interested in fish. Therefore, after birth, the mother pushes the calf directly to the surface to breathe. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it: an animal that can swim so well, but still drown? But because a dolphin is a mammal and breathes through lungs-not gills-it can. Just like cows!ĭuring birth, the tail comes out first so that the calf does not drown. The gestation period lasts twelve months – so they are pregnant for a year! After that year, the young dolphin is born, and such a young is called a calf. As long as they are tough and strong enough! Just like the group composition, the hierarchies are also constantly changing.ĭolphins mate throughout the year, but especially during the warmer summer months. Usually the larger males are dominant, but smaller animals can also move to the top of the hierarchy. By chasing, biting and hitting each other with their tail fins, they compete for their place in the hierarchy. That means one dolphin is in charge of the other dolphin. Within a group of dolphins, a dominance hierarchy forms. This social structure is also known as ‘fission fusion’. Once in a while, multiple groups of dolphins come together and form a superpod of thousands of dolphins! Then the groups split up again into new compositions.
They live in pods for hunting and breeding and to better defend themselves against predators. Dolphins themselves have to watch out for predators such as orcas and large shark species.ĭolphins live in dynamic groups of about five to twenty animals, also known as a ‘pod’. Different groups of dolphins have developed distinct hunting techniques, which are passed on from generation to generation. They eat a wide variety of fish, squid and crustaceans. Dolphins are smart, they can adapt to many different habitats. Only in the colder Arctic seas you will not find dolphins. They live both in shallow coastal areas and far away from the coast, in the open ocean.
In the wild, dolphins are found in temperate and tropical waters. That means baby dolphins come out of the mother’s belly alive – not from an egg – and the mother gives her young milk.
Did you know that all dolphins are a type of whale? And like all whales, they are not fish at all, they are mammals. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), one of 36 species of dolphins worldwide, lives in Dolfinarium.
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