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Dolphins are small toothed whales. They are mammals and not a fish. Female dolphins are like female humans. The female dolphins feed their young with milk that is produced in the mother's body.
Dolphins have lungs and therefore are warm-blooded. Their body temperature stays the same. Dolphins rank among the intelligent animals among with dogs and chimpanzees. Dolphins and other whales are a group of mammals called cetaceans.
Marine dolphins only live in salt water. River dolphins only live in fresh or slighlty salt water.
Dolphin refers to large game fish.
Marine dolphins related to porpoises and other sea mammal groups. Dolphins and porpoises have a difference that occur in their snout and teeth.
Dolphins have a beaklike snout and coneshaped teeth.
Porpoises have rounded snouths and flat or spade-shaped teeth.
Dolphins are aquatic mammals. They are scientifically classified as a type of whale or a cetacean. The whale types are determined by their distinct eating capabilities. Cetaceans filter food like krill, a small organisms through a comblike sieve in their mouth. For example, a baleen whale is a cetacean.
There are about 70 kinds of toothed whales. There are about 45 species of dolphins and porpoises. The 45 species of dolphins and porpoises are truthfully dolphins.
The subspecies of whales are the killer whale, a.k.a the orca, the pseudorca, a.k.a the false killer whale, the pygmy killer whale, the short-finned pilot whale, long-finned pilot whale, and the melon-headed whale.
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