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Dolphins like other mammals are warm blooded, give birth, and are born with hair. But what makes
them different that they live their lives in the water and just get out to breathe.
How do they look like
Yes there are. Like for example the different dolphin types that live in the rivers
and the there types that live In the seas. Each one of them has a different color
from the other so they are easily distinguished.
River dolphins
There are 5 species of river dolphins. And each one of them has different
characteristics that can help us know the type of the dolphin with the most
apparent one is their skin color or how they look
Amazon river dolphin
Sea dolphins
There are a lot of types of sea dolphins. They range in size from the largest, such as
the orca, pilot whale and false killer whale, to the smallest which include the New
Zealand dolphin and tucuxi. Other ocean dolphins include Risso's, striped, spinner,
spotted, common, dusky, hourglass, rough-toothed, white-beaked, Commerson's and
bottlenose dolphins.
In this presentation I will show only 3 types of sea dolphins.
Orca dolphin
Orcas are members of the marine dolphin family Delphinidae, their overall
size is what sets them apart from others in their suborder. Today, if a
dolphin reaches a size of more than 30 feet long, it may be referred to by
some as a whale, but the rules of taxonomy still classify the orca as a
dolphin
Pilot whale dolphin