How to Use bottlenose dolphin in a Sentence

bottlenose dolphin

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  • Along the shore of the open bay, just down current from the bayou/slough’s mouth, a pair of bottlenose dolphins tore into their meals.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The little creature grew just about eight feet long—or the size of a modern-day bottlenose dolphin.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The species serves as food in the bay for large predators that include striped bass, bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Between the ages of about 4 months and a year, every bottlenose dolphin settles on a whistle of its own that stays the same for the rest of the dolphin's life.
    — Karen Ravn, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2013
  • Nearly 300 dead bottlenose dolphins — three times as many as normal — have washed up along the beaches of the Gulf Coast this year.
    — Currie Engel, Time, 21 June 2019
  • In 2011, a pod adopted a deformed bottlenose dolphin, which had been spurned.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Take a boat tour to encounter silvery bottlenose dolphins for an instant hit with the kid.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • While native fauna spans all walks of life, one of the city's most beloved creatures — the bottlenose dolphin — can be found in abundance just off the shore.
    — Jared Ranahan, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In the lab, the students learned how to identify bottlenose dolphins in the water and how to read the notches on their dorsal fins, Dahl said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Now, scientists are adding one more species to that list: bottlenose dolphins.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Or, wake up to a morning of ocean kayaking through kelp beds while on the lookout for sea lions, bat rays, and bottlenose dolphins.
    — Erin Behan, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 May 2018
  • If unfolded, the surface of a bottlenose dolphin’s brain would be about the size of six magazine pages.
    — Katie Palmer, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2011
  • The zoo welcomed a 36-pound male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin on Aug. 27, according to a statement by the zoo.
    — Joe Tamborello, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
  • Tião, a bottlenose dolphin, spent a few months in 1994 interacting with swimmers on a stretch of coast near São Paulo, Brazil.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • While the native fauna spans all walks of life, one of New Smyrna Beach's most beloved creatures — the bottlenose dolphin — can be found in abundance just off the shore.
    — Jared Ranahan, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
  • The Australian bottlenose dolphin, a cetacean, will wear a sea sponge on its rostrum for protection when rooting around the ocean floor.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Higher up the food chain, reports of bottlenose dolphin have increased in recent years.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
  • While bottlenose dolphins have slender beaks, the mysterious one-month-old’s beak was short and blunt.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
  • One group of bottlenose dolphins in Australia uses a technique called sponging to find food.
    — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • As a result, the sub is five knots faster than the average submersible and two knots quicker than a bottlenose dolphin, according to the yard.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Atlantic bottlenose dolphin — bitten by a shark and also sick with pneumonia — was found washed up on the beach in March near Jacksonville.
    — Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
  • The bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
  • In the never-ending symphony of the sea, there's a standout among the percussive pings of bottlenose dolphins and the plaintive calls of humpback whales.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Lunch might be delivered to your own sleek beach club, where the only passing traffic comes in the form of bottlenose dolphins, green sea turtles or, for the very lucky, a pod of Bryde’s whales.
    — Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Officers saw the bottlenose dolphins around 3:30 p.m. while out on patrol in Buzzards Bay.
    — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The wild bottlenose dolphin was beloved by all in Amble but had a special connection to Cooper, who spent hours with Freddie, rain or shine.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
  • At just a few months old, the bottlenose dolphin became tangled up in a crab trap in a lagoon in the Canaveral National Seashore in Florida.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Gray whales plow through the water on their twice-yearly migration, bottlenose dolphins play in the waves and passersby gather to watch the orange sun dip into the horizon.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For example, the website Salon reports that, a few years back, bottlenose dolphins were carrying sea sponges on their noses of the coast of Australia.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
  • Most animals, like bottlenose dolphins, use the passive form.
    — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

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