Bottlenose Dolphin
Crab
Whale
Shark
Starfish
Seahorse
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Bottlenose Dolphin
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Crab
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Whale
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Shark
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Starfish
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Seahorse
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| Bottlenose
Dolphin-
Bottlenose Dolphins have stream-lined bodies and a rounded head
with a distinctive beak. They have a tall dorsalfin and slightly pointed
flippers.
Bottlenose Dolphins have sharp teeth and eat mostly
squid and fish. The bottlenose dolphin grows to be at most 12 feetlong and
somtimes weighing more than 1,400 pounds. Most dolphins are smaller than
this |
| Crab
- All crabs have eight legs and two powerful claws. They use their two claws
to grasp food and fight each other. Crabs have two eyes perched on
stalks that stick out from their hard shell. |
| Whale
- Whales
are huge, fantastic, aquatic mammals. The breathe air through
their blowhole(s). They are unlike fish who breathe using their gills. Whales
have sleek, streamlined bodies that move easily through the water.
Whales eat almost 4
tons of tiny krill each day . |
| Shark - Sharks live in waters all over the world, in every ocean, and even in some rivers and lakes. Sharks are very different from other fish. Sharks don't have any bones and can only swim forward. Fish have a very bony structure and can swim both forwards and backwards. |
| Starfish
- The real name for a starfish is a sea star. They used to be called starfish
but they changed the name because they really aren't fish. They are echinoderms.
A starfish/sea star's skeleton is made up of many plates that move like
flexible joints. When starfish/sea stars are born they're symmetrical, but
as they grow they eventually develop five arms.Some starfish/sea stars have
nine or ten arms. |
| Seahorse
- Seahorses
can be many different sizes. The adult sizes range from less than one inch
to one foot.When seahorses eat the suck their food through theis bony snout
with a very rapid snap of the head. They swallow their prey whole because
they don't have any teeth. |