Common bottlenose dolphin

Distribution

Habitats

The following habitats are found across the Common bottlenose dolphin distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.

• Estuaries
• Shallow seas
• Open ocean
• Reefs
• Rivers and streams

Behaviours

Discover what these behaviours are and how different plants and animals use them.

• Learning
• Migration
• Adapted to swimming
• Carnivorous
• Co-operative breeding
• Hierarchical
• Tactile sense
• Acoustic communication
• Maternal care
• Nomadic
• Pack-hunter
• Polygynous
• Active at birth
• Social
• Sexual dimorphism
• Tool use
• Echolocation and ultrasound
• Visual communication
• Viviparous

About

Tursiops truncatus, commonly known as the common bottlenose dolphin or more commonly the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (and in older literature simply as the bottlenose dolphin, a term now applied to the genus), is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae.

Common bottlenose dolphins are the most familiar dolphins due to the wide exposure they receive in captivity in marine parks and dolphinaria, and in movies and television programs.T. truncatus is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. They inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and are absent only from polar waters. All bottlenose dolphins were previously known as T. truncatus, but recently the genus has been split into two, T. truncatus and T. aduncus. Although this species has been traditionally called the bottlenose dolphin, many authors have used the name common bottlenose dolphin for this species since a second bottlenose dolphins species, the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, was described. The dolphins inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide. Considerable genetic variation has been described among members of this species, even between neighboring populations, and so many experts believe multiple species may be included within T. truncatus.

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