Irrawaddy Dolphin
Its Amazing Adaptation: The Irrawaddy dolphin lives in fresh and brackish water.The Irrawaddy dolphin is slow and most fish are fast in the Irrawaddy dolphin’s habitat so it is hard for it to catch fish.The highest speed an Irrawaddy dolphin has been recorded at is 25 KPH. The Irrawaddy is very cool because it has adapted to team up with fishermen.This helps the dolphin because while the dolphin chases the fish they will get stuck in the mud and some fish will become easy prey while they are confused by the nets movements. My theory on why the Irrawaddy dolphin has adapted this way is because it is to slow to catch enough prey to eat so this way it gets enough to eat. It is very rare that an animal adapts to a human because an adaptation normally takes longer to do then we have been on the earth.
CMS http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/O_brevirostris/O_brevirostris.htm
Wikipeidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrawaddy_dolphin WWF http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/cetaceans/about/irrawaddy_dolphin/ |
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