come in many different shapes and sizes. They can be as small as four feet (1 1/4 meters) long weighing just 100 pounds (45 kilograms), or as large as 30 feet (nine meters) long weighing up to 11,000 pounds (950 kilograms). All dolphins, including even the largest, can move quickly through the water, using paddle-shaped forelimbs called flippers to steer, dorsal fins on their backs to stay balanced, and powerful tail fins called flukes to move forward. Their torpedo-shaped bodies flow smoothly in the water, so they don't make many waves. They use their flippers to make sharp turns and sudden stops. All dolphins have blowholes on the tops of their heads. These mammals breathe through their blowholes. They have to go to the surface of the water to breathe. Each dolphin has just one blowhole.
How do fish breathe under water? | Ask.com - 0 views
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The oxygen that fish and other animals with gills use is bonded to hydrogen molecules and is dissolved in the water.
Five Stages Of Sleep ... Sleep Cycles Explained - 2 views
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Stage 1This is the lightest stage of sleep, the transition phase, where you feel yourself drifting off. If you were to forget about the alarm clock and allow yourself to wake up naturally, Stage 1 sleep would be the last stage before you fully wake up. You don't spend too much time in Stage 1 sleep, typically five to 10 minutes, just enough to allow your body to slow down and your muscles to relax.
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Stage 2The second stage of sleep is still considered light sleep. Your brain activity starts to slow down, as well as your heart rate and breathing. Your body temperature falls a little and you're beginning to reach a state of total relaxation in preparation for the deeper sleep to come.
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Stage 3Stage 3 sleep is the start of deep sleep, also known as slow wave sleep. During stage 3, your brain waves are slow "delta waves," although there may still be short bursts of faster of brain activity (also known as beta-waves). If you were to get awakened suddenly during this stage, you would be groggy and confused, and find it difficult to focus at first.
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Dolphin Families - 0 views
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Your family may be like a dolphin family. Dolphins live in big family groups, called pods. As soon as a baby dolphin, or calf, is born, her mother and father push her to the surface of the water so that she can breathe. The calf stays by her mother's side most of the time, but her father, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters all help to take care of her.
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The Dolphin family is really similar to people family's. The group of Dolphin's are called pods. A baby Dolphin is named calf. When they are big enough, their parents push her/him into the surface. All the family takes care of the baby. By family I mean aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters and obviously their parents.
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BrainPOP | Gills - 0 views
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Inside the fish theres something called the lamellae (The lamellae is an organ that the fish has to help it breathe.) and theres tiny blood cells and theres a blood vessel that bring the blood really close to the surface. When water goes into the gills,oxygen goes to the fish. When blood carries oxygen to the lamellae it doesn't have a lot of oxygen. Blood swims through the blood vessels and water swims the opposite way to the lamellae. That way, blood swims through the gills but it was a little less oxygen than the water around it. When the blood can't hold any more oxygen it swims its way to the heart.
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To get oxygen the fish just moves with their mouth open or take a gulp of water
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The bigger the lamellae is the better blood can hit contact with water and the fish can get more oxygen
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The lamellae has evolved so much to have the most surface area it can have
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