The Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
The Atlantic spotted dolphin is a carnivore, so it eats meat. The main diet for the spotted dolphin is: a huge variety of fish and squids.
Subtropical and tropical waters are where you’ll find the Atlantic spotted dolphin. The Atlantic spotted dolphin has also been found in a couple parts of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. They prefer to stay in open water rather then shallow waters or reefs.
The biggest threat to the spotted dolphin is the shark. Sharks prey among several dolphins in all the oceans. Although, spotted dolphins are notorious for turning the tables on sharks and killing them, but dolphins don’t eat the sharks that they kill, thus proving that they did it for self protection. Dolphins use their beaks to bust into the sharks lungs causing the sharks breathing source to fill with flood and killing them.
Dolphins travel in pack and treat each other as family, even if they’re not family. A family of dolphins has been spotted up to 50 dolphins, but the usual size of family for the spotted dolphin only holds about 5, 10 or 15. Spotted dolphins are never found alone, and if they’re found alone then there’s usually something wrong with that dolphin. Spotted dolphins travel in families for many different reasons:
1. If a predator tried to attack when, then there would be several to fight it off.
2. Traveling in a family helps the spotted dolphin catch their food easier.
3. If a spotted dolphin got stuck in a net or something, then others in the family would attempt to rescue is from the net or whatever had got a hold of.
So, as you can see, the spotted dolphin has plenty of good reasons to stick together.
When Atlantic spotted dolphin is first born, they have no spots at all. Spots on a spotted dolphin come with age, as I said above. A baby dolphin stays right by its mother’s said until about 12 months of age, and then it’ll start swimming freely with the rest of the family, or even sometimes they’ll start their own family. Atlantic spotted dolphins don’t usually leave their original family unless their mother dies, and then they’ll start their own family sometimes. The baby dolphin, the calf, drink it’s mother’s milk for the first couple of months before it starts eating fish and squid like the rest of the family.
The Atlantic spotted dolphin moves on to a new home at the end of the year along with it’s family. Spotted dolphins migrate for about 100 miles for a new home so they’ll have a better stock of fish and squid for food. The spotted dolphin does this one time a year every year. While in the traveling process, all the calves will be surrounded by adult dolphins, this protects them from predators.
