Dolphins are generally playful animals. It is a fact that they spend most of their time playing. Dolphins are often observed swimming along with boats because they enjoy the current of the boat.
Foraging and feeding are vital behaviours observed for all dolphins. They need food supply to keep their bodies warm, to grow, travel and mate.
The dolphin also has the ability to locate their prey using “echolocation”. They make intense, short pulses of sound that form a rapid series of clicks. These clicks, and other sounds, bounce off objects in their path producing echoes from which the dolphin is able to build up a “sound picture” of its surroundings.
Communication between dolphins is an important aspect of their socialisation. This is done by a variety of movements, vocalisations, body posture and contact.
It is believed that each dolphin possesses its own “signature whistle” by which it identifies itself to other animals, much in the same way that a person is identified by a name.
Dolphins are also very good swimmers, they have been known to save people from drowning.
Bibliography:
Dolphins the oracles of the sea
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