Bottlenose dolphin

The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is small, gray, and looks happy because of it’s mouth. It uses echolocation when hunting prey(which is a behavioral adaptation). It also has 18 to 26 pairs of teeth (which is structural adaptation)but they usually swallow their prey whole(which is a behavioral adaptations) . The Bottlenose dolphin’s habitat is tropical oceans or warm waters. The Bottlenose dolphin’s predators are humans, sharks and whales.  The Bottlenose dolphin’s prey are fish, squid and crustaceans.  The Bottlenose dolphins has bilateral symmetry. It also is a heterotrophic and endothermic.

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Mammalia

Order:Cetacea

Family:Delphinidae

Genus:Tursiops

Species:truncatus

lastly an interesting fact about this organism is it was hunted for meat and oil.