Common bottlenose dolphin

Scientific name: Tursiops truncatus

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0011Males and females look different

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Diet

Diet and feeding

Bottlenose dolphins cooperate to herd fish into groups and then take turns charging into the school to feed; they do not chew their food but grip the fish with their teeth and swallow it whole, head first.

SRC-139

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Sources

4NOAA Fisheries — Common Bottlenose DolphinSRC-139

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Sources

1Rabaoui et al. 2021 — Diversity, Distribution, and Density of Marine Mammals Along the Saudi Waters of the Arabian GulfSRC-062
2Duporge et al. 2024 — Passive acoustic monitoring and visual sighting survey of cetacean occurrence patterns in Saudi ArabiaSRC-061
3CMS Technical Series No. 33 — Cetaceans of the Red SeaSRC-140
4NOAA Fisheries — Common Bottlenose DolphinSRC-139
5Handbook of the Mammals of the World — Tursiops truncatus species accountSRC-176
6GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)SRC-161
7Tursiops truncatus — bottlenosed dolphinSRC-344
8A Review of Cetaceans from Waters off the Arabian Peninsula (Baldwin, Gallagher & Van Waerebeek), submitted to CBD EBSA workshop 2015SRC-345