Dolphin

Dolphin


Dolphin is a human friendly mammal. Average life span of a dolphin is fifty years. It weights about four hundred lbs and can grow up to thirteen feet in length. Dolphins mate during February to April. The pregnancy last from eleven months. The females almost always give birth to one baby. Dolphins are mammals so like all mammals female dolphins have milk producing glands. The calf (baby dolphin) drinks the milk from the mother`s nipples. Mother dolphins nurse and protect their young for an year. There are forty species of dolphins. Maximum speed of a dolphins is 25 mph and they can go 950 feet deep in water.