Dolphins  

 Baby dolphins, called calves, and adult dolphins are really playful. Dolphins can swim as soon as they are born. When the calf is born the parent lifts it to the top of the water so it can take its first breath.   

 

 Dolphins usually live by the Equator but some of them live in different places. For example the River Dolphin lives in rivers or lakes, and the Hectors Dolphin lives near land. 

  Dolphins use echolocation. Echolocation works when dolphins produce a high pitch sound by listening to the echo and interpreting the time it took before the echo came back. Dolphins use echoes to locate fish and other objects.  The dolphin estimates the distances of the object.

  Dolphins don’t have gills (gills are something that helps some animals breath under water.) They have blowholes. Dolphins have great eyesight.

    

          BY,

                 Clara Shangold

                        &

               Lily Helphinstine