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STRIPED DOLPHIN |
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SCIENTIFIC
NAME
- Stenella diminutive of steno,
coeruleoalba from the latin coeruleus "azure" and albus
"white"; so "steno azure and white".
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FAMILY
- Delphinidae
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| DIMENSIONS
- Medium Length
2 mt, maximum 2.6 mt, the maximum weight 150 Kg. |
| ASPECT
- Streamlined
Body; melon enough pronounced, rostrum along and thin; triangular
medium dorsal fin and little arcuated; small and thin pectoral fins; thin caudal peduncle. |
| SKIN
and COLORATION - Back
gray-blue, flanks clear gray and abdomen white, on the back
caparison dark gray with strip white until the thorax to shape
of flame, dark lines from eye towards the pectoral fins and the
genital zone. Many are the possible ones varying that they modify how
much said, a lot that as an example in the Mediterranean they make to
moreover resemble the Striped dolphin (more small) the bottlenose dolphin thanks to the
design to clear flame shape under the ridge in ahead that interrupts
the caparison. |
| LONGEVITY
- Fino a 57 anni. |
| REPRODUCTION
- Reproductive Season in summer-winter, gestation of approximately 12
months. At the birth puppy measure approximately 90 cm and
hung 11 Kg. |
| TEETH
- Conical small, until 3 milimeter of diameter,
little arcuated. |
| BREATH
- Little visible. |
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SOUNDS
- Three types of emissions:
1° click, used
emissions of short duration for the biosonar.
2° it hisses modulated.
3° sounds to impulses.
The emissions of the number 2 and 3 constitute the dictionary of the striped dolphin, used in order to communicate
and a lot different from one zone to an other.
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| FEEDING
- The
diet of the striped dolphin is very varied mostly composed from
cefalopods but also from fish and crustaceans (in the Ligurian sea
as an example good part of the diet is formed from crawfish) (Vd. Feeding). |
| HABITAT
- Pelagic Cetacean that loves mostly tropical waters, moderated not cold (over the 12°C). |
| SWIM
- It's a very agile cetacean, knows to be very fast. Able of remarkable
immersions. |
| JUMPS
- They Carry out spectacular
jumps also high three times the length of their body. |
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MIGRATIONS
- Some groups complete
great movements more than migrations, others are permanent (for ex. in
the Mediterranean).
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SOCIALITY
- Studies Lack to care but is known
that they form groups of adults and others of young people (10-40
individuals), sometimes mixing with groups of common Dolphin. In
the Mediterranean the branches are formed approximately from 26
exemplary of average.
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TEMPERAMENT
- Intelligent and enough confiding
often one lets himself being transported from the bow wave of the boats (and also
of the common Finners).
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DANGER
and PREDATORY
- The great sharks can
attack therefore like the killer whale, victim also of pelagic-net
and the pollution. Sometimes subject to individual beachings.
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SPECIES
DIFFUSION
- Careful esteem do not exist, however
rather numerous. In the Mediterranean present everywhere (estimated
200.000 exemplary) with prevalence in the West.
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