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Dolphin facts
1. Dolphin
Facts:
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Dolphins are extremely intelligent and they love to play. They
can even numb other fish with their sound waves.
Dolphins are marine mammals and not fish.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open and they can Did you know?
hear frequencies more than ten times higher than the upper
limit of adult human hearing. In places with lots
of food, pods* can
They can jump up to 6 meters high and turn around merge temporarily,
themselves about 7-times before going back into the water. forming a
SUPERPOD;
Dolphins are social, living in pods* of up to 12 individuals. with as many
as 1’000
Tuna like to follow dolphins because they are better at finding dolphins!
food. Dolphins don’t mind the tuna tagging along since the
tuna swim underneath the dolphins, which protects them
from attacks coming from the deep sea.
Dolphins have more than 200 teeth. They hunt
fish, octopus and crab.
2. Dolphin
Quiz:
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True or False?
1. Dolphins are fish.
2. Dolphins are very social and live in groups.
3. Dolphins have better hearing than humans. Fun Box
4. Dolphins are not very clever. What did the
baby dolphin do
5. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. when he didn‘t get
his way?
He whale-d
Answers:
1. F (they are marine mammals), 2. T, 3. T, 4. F (dolphins are VERY intelligent), 5. T