Delfiniti houses 11 dolphins total. 7 come from the northern Pacific coast of México and 4 come from Cuba. 5 males and 6 females.
Of the seven mexican Bottlenose dolphins, 5 have been here since Delfiniti opened to the public which was almost 7 years ago. Of the remaining 2, one was born here almost 4 years ago and her name is Mia and the other one, named Chato is a rescued male dolphin who got here on October of 2005. The tour cuban dolphins have been here for a year.
Delfiniti´s largest dolphin is Lluvia. She is 9 feet long and weighs around 700 pounds. The most developed sense is their hearing. Dolphins are able to hear frequencies as high as 150 khz, while humans can´t hear higher than 20 khz.
Dolphins can jump(leap) as high as 18 feet
Bottlenose dolphins routinely swim at speeds of about 3 to 7 mph, but they can swim as fast as 18 to 22 mph. Depending on habitat, most bottlenose dolphins regularly dive to depths of (10 to 150 ft). Under experimental conditions, the deepest trained dive is 1,795 ft. It is possible for a dive to last eight to ten minutes.
Bottlenose dolphins live in groups called pods.
The size of a pod varies significantly. Age when attaining sexual maturity is variable among bottlenose dolphins. On average, females become sexually mature when they reach about 2.4 to 2.6 m (8 - 8.5 ft.), at about 10 to 12 years. Gestation period is about 12 months A female dolphin can potentially bear a calf every two years, but calving intervals generally average three Calves are born in the water. The calf is approximately 42 to 52 in. long and weighs about 44 lb.
All the scratches or marks on their body are called rake marks because they look like they´ve been done with a leaf rake. Tose are teth marks they make each other when they fight play or mate. They lack the use of hands, so their snout and mouth becomes an important tool.
Dolphins have three kinds
of fins. The first kind is the dorsal fin, located on the back of the dolphin. This fin helps them cut trough the water and it helps balance themselves while they´re swimming. It´s made out of muscle, cartilage and conective tissue.
The second kind of fins are the pectoral fins or flippers. These fins are used for stirage. The fins are moved sideways, or up and down and that´s how
dolphins turn. These are the only fins on dolphin´s body that have bone inside. They have arms and hands with five really long fingers each.
The hole on top of their head is called the blowholea and that´s where dolphin´s breathe from. It is just like our nose and it´s conected to their lungs. All of the sounds a dolphin produces come from the blowhole. They are just air vibrations. None of the sounds come from the throat-mouth, since they lack vocal cords.
They have 80 to 100 teeth, an average of 90 teeth.
Eventhough they have that many teeth, they don´t chew their food, thay swallow it whole head first, so the spines of the fish won´t catch in their throats. The teeth are only used to capture their prey.
