Essays on Dolphin

Why most people are concerned about entangling dolphins in tuna nets but less concerned about entangling tuna in nets is one of the biggest questions raised in "Who swims with the tuna." The rate at which people are putting dolphins to death astounds me. I think a dolphin has distinct...

The largest members of the dolphin family are often the killer whales. They are members of the Order Artiodactyla, Family Delphinidae, Genus Ornicus, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Kingdom Animalia, and Species Orca. Ornicus orca is their scientific or binomial name. Since they were seen hunting and preying on certain other...

The Threats to the Common Dolphin population The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is about to get extinct and this is due to a number of reasons. Firstly, all the changes happening to the environment such as temperature affect the amount of prey in the water and makes them disperse to other...

Will the sea lion or the dolphin be more hydrodynamic, based on their body form, external appendages, and body covering? The dolphin has a higher hydrodynamic coefficient than the sea lion. Sea lions, which are pinnipeds, have feathers and were converted from land mammals, while dolphins are hairless. When swimming, fur...

Cetaceans include porpoises, whales and dolphins, and they are an order of mammals that originated in the Eocene epoch about 50 million years ago. Their predecessors were mostly terrestrial artiodactyls and they looked like small deer. The early cetaceans were amphibians, while the modern ones are obligate aquatic mammals. Hippos...