25 stunning facts about dolphins and their abilities

Do you know what animal is the closest relative of the dolphin? Hippopotamus! True! Dolphins are much closer to hippos than whales. And much closer to humans than to any of the inhabitants of the ocean. Dolphins have so similar to human consciousness and behavior that some scientists suggest to classify them as "non-human persons". With regard to intelligence, there is little animals, even approaching the level of dolphin. < Website tells the most fascinating facts about dolphins.



Like any mammal, the dolphin has the hair, at least in infancy. However, after some time the hair falls out. Painting is protecting dolphins. Their back is dark and a light belly. Thus, they merge with the ocean dark when viewed from the top, and with a light air when viewed from below. < Dolphins omnivores. They can eat anything Killer -. It is actually dolphins. English name killer whale ( «killer whale") orca gained in the 17th century as a result of an incorrect translation of the Spanish name, killer whales - asesina ballenas (killer whales). Since 2005, the US military lost 36 combat dolphins trained to neutralize terrorists. Some researchers who study brain structure and social order of dolphins, the dolphins to offer the same rights as men. They even called the dolphins' non-human persons ". In 2008, a dolphin named Moko spent two sperm whales through a narrow strait after the rescue team could not do it. < Scientists have discovered that dolphins give each other names that do not change throughout life. In the Brazilian District Lagoon dolphins help fishermen chase fish into nets at least since 1847. Due to the fact that dolphins breathe consciously, their brains may not fully awake. They sleep only half a brain. Most are small and rare dolphins in the world - this is Maui's dolphins. Their length - 1, 7 meters. They left a total of 55 individuals. Soviet military at one time trained dolphins to attach mines to ships. For this purpose, they sometimes dropped by parachute. The famous dolphin who has performed the role of Flipper in 1964 committed suicide, stopped breathing (dolphins breathe consciously). < In 2013, researchers found a dolphin, an adopted family of sperm whales. Since dolphins are mammals, they have lungs and they breathe like humans. That is, they may drown people. Dolphins males females sometimes separated from their families and starved until they agree to the marriage. Victims disappointment in love dolphins can start killing everyone. There are cases where the whales dolphins rolled on his back. In 2006, the tallest man on earth, Bao Ksishun rescued dolphin from extinction. His long arm he was able to get a piece of plastic from the stomach of a dolphin when all other methods have failed. There is an organization called the Anti-dolphin, whose members believe that dolphins are a danger to humanity and must be destroyed. < Dolphins can certainly distinguish between people under water Due to its sonar system. They know us by the skeleton. It is known that dolphins rescuing people after a shipwreck, keeping them afloat, and even stripped of sharks. Dolphins, living in the River Ganges, in the course of evolution have practically lost sight. As compensation, their sonar system is incredibly sensitive. In Kalkaze lake in the US state of Louisiana live pink dolphin albino. Wounds dolphins heal very quickly.

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