About

Dolphins are for many the most beloved marine mammals living in Biscayne Bay, South Florida’s unofficial mascot.

They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, including harbors, bays, gulfs, and estuaries, as well as nearshore coastal waters, deeper waters over the continental shelf, and even far offshore in the open ocean.

• There are currently 42 species of dolphins and seven species of porpoises.
• Dolphins are marine mammals. …
• A dolphin pregnancy last between nine and 16 months. …
• Dolphins eat fish, squid and crustaceans. …
• All dolphins have conical-shaped teeth. …
• The orca (killer whale) is the largest dolphin.

As sharks are mostly solitary hunters and quite slow, they end up being no match in the face of a pod of dolphins. Groups of dolphins are so scary that sharks have been known to stay away from the parts of the ocean where dolphins are known to live, swimming away to safer water!dolphin survival rates and life expectancies in U.S. zoological facilities have increased significantly over the past few decades;

Specifically, their average life expectancy is now about 28 – 29 years; and. dolphins in U.S. zoos and aquariums today live as long or longer than dolphins in the wild.