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Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, delfin skakavy) from brand new dolphin lagoon ZOO / dolphinarium Nuremberg, Germany :D

For many years, dolphins in Nuremberg lived in small and boring little pool. After years of fighting with fanatican activists, after searching for money and after years of building, ZOO finally opened brand new amazing huge open air exhibit few days ago! As I love dolphins, I am very happy for this new and modern habitat and I would like to congratulate the ZOO for finishing it. The defeat of few so called ,,dolphin rights" activists is in fact a victory of dolphins, who live in ZOO Nuremberg! :aww:






I am very proud of this photo, because it is pretty difficult to take a photo of dolphins in Nürnberg :giggle:

Thank you for your comments and faves :hug:
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INFO ABOUT THE ANIMAL:

Name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Location: warm and temperate tropical oceans worldwide
Size: 2 - 4 metres long weight: 150 – 650 kg
Diet: fish, cephalopod, crustacean
Conservation status: Least Concern
Interesting facts: dolphin is a mammal, not a fish! Baby dolphins always drink mother milk | dolphins have bigger brains, than humans | dolphins usually live in groups | dolphin is one of few animals, who kill not only for food! Dolphins are well-known for killing porpoises, their smaller "cousins". Male dolphins are also known to rape the females. Male dolphins even kill baby dolphins to make their mothers want to mate again. Dolphins are not that cute and nice animals, as many people think. They have no problem to kill a shark and they sometime annoy or sexually harass swimmers in the sea | dolphins use very effective echolocation to search for prey | dolphins are time to time found washed ashore, too often dying – nobody knows, why this happens.
Relationship with humans: people keep dolphins in aquariums and dolphinarius, where the animals perform special tricks – dolphins very easily learn those tricks | there are scientific researches about dolphins, which usually prove their high inteligence | dolphins appear in many human legends | some dolphins help people to hunt fish throught whole generations of both, people and dolphins | US army uses dolphins, teaching them to find mines and so on... | in some parts of the world, wild dolphins come from their own will to interact with people

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To see more, look at my WATER ANIMALS GALLERY :aww:


This photo belongs to me and I can very easily prove, that it was me, who took this shot. So please, respect my copyright :nod: if you want to use my work, ask me first to gain my permission, please! Thank you :lol:
Image size
644x595px 382.52 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 500D
Shutter Speed
1/1600 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
171 mm
ISO Speed
250
Date Taken
Aug 25, 2011, 2:18:28 PM
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I LOVE dolphins.🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬Beautiful.