Who are the dolphins? We all know that dolphins are small whales. Like other cetaceans, dolphins breathe not with gills, but with air. They never leave the sea, their babies are born here. The mother nourishes them with milk, so dolphins are mammals. They are warm-blooded. They have sharp teeth, and their head ends in a mouth resembling a bird's beak. The main food of dolphins - fish, shellfish and small marine animals. Ordinary dolphins are about 1.6 meters long. They have a big mouth with 80-100 teeth. Above they are black or gray, and their belly is white with black fins.
The smell of dolphins. Many important secrets of dolphins are still not fully understood and explained by researchers. A lot of mistakes in the way of studying living creatures were performed by the researchers, involuntarily comparing the object of their research with man. Such mistakes in their time were admitted in the study of the olfactory apparatus of dolphins.
Legends about dolphins. There are many myths and legends about dolphins. They tell how these animals helped the seamen in distress, saved the drowned.
Is dialogue with dolphins possible? Among all the animals inhabiting the globe, only man we consider to be a reasonable being. But there are animals about which one can also say that they are endowed with intelligence. These are dolphins. Their brains are bigger and richer in convolutions than human.