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SpeciesCetaceaDelphinidae
Marine mammals

🐬Common bottlenose dolphin

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Афали́на, или большо́й дельфи́н, или бутылконо́сый дельфи́н (лат. Tursiops truncatus), — вид дельфинов, один из трёх видов рода афалин (Tursiops) наряду с индийской афалиной (Tursiops aduncus) и австралийской афалиной (Tursiops australis). Могут скрещиваться с малыми косатками, давая гибриды — косаткодельфинов.

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Videos
907
Photos
2
Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 3.7× your weight
Also called
Cowfish, Bottlenose dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottle-nosed Dolphin, bottle-nosed dophin, common bottle-nosed dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
230 kg
Body length
3.63 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
53 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common bottlenose dolphin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
230 kgrecord 650 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 200 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
3.63 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass
1,551 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
53 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 52 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
18 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
9.2 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
1.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
53 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.2 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
230 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common bottlenose dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the Common bottlenose dolphin

Closest relative on this site
🐬 Irrawaddy dolphin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.1 million years ago.
What it eats
fish80%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
Tumler (nb), tuimelaar (nl), Großer Tümmler (de), grand dauphin (fr), Tursiops truncatus (es), Tursiops truncatus (it) … and 27 more languages

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