19/05/2023
🐬Dolphins🐬
•Dolphins do not drink water. They satisfy their need for water by using water from food. Since the skin of dolphins is impermeable to water, the amount of water they need is not great.
•Dolphins have a flexible eye lens, so their vision is just as good under the sea as it is above the sea. Under the sea, they are also used with echolocation (they have a locator that allows them to orient themselves in space).
•Dolphins spend most of their time underwater while hunting; about 3-4 minutes. However, if they are in danger, dolphins can spend 6-7 minutes underwater.
•Depending on the area they live in, dolphins can dive up to 300 m. However, their average dive is between 30 and 70 meters.
•Dolphins can live over 50 years, and females live a little longer on average. The average age they experience in nature is about 40 years.
•Dolphins seem to always be smiling. However, dolphins cannot change the appearance of their mouths. They look the same when dolphins are happy and when they are angry!
•Dolphins do not suck milk, but the mother squeezes it from her mammary glands into the cub's mouth by muscle contraction. In order for the milk not to mix with the sea, it must be very thick and fatty. Dolphin milk contains about 14% milk fat, which is 4 times more than there is milk fat in cow or human milk.
•Dolphins never sleep. One half of their brain is always awake, and after two hours of activity it switches to the other half.
•The brain of a dolphin is more advanced than the brain of a chimpanzee, and these are creatures whose morality is on a human level.
•Scientists claim that dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror and study their own movements and perform them consciously while watching themselves in the mirror.
•They can learn to "type" on a keyboard underwater to request toys they want to play with.
•Dolphins communicate. Experts around the world are working to decipher the language of dolphins, which almost never stop vocalizing.
•Dolphins face numerous threats, mostly from humans. Namely, dolphins in the Adriatic have almost no natural enemies; only larger sharks could attack them, but there are almost none of them in the Adriatic.