What do Dolphins Eat?

Dolphin Facts: What Do Dolphins Eat?

By colleenpence

Dolphins are also whales. They belong the group of toothed whales, and like most other toothed whales, they use their teeth to catch their prey which they then swallow whole. Here is what different species of Australian dolphins eat.

Custom Search

Diet of Australian Dolphins
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) eats fish and marine invertebrates. Invertebrates are small animals that, unlike vertebrates, have no back bone. This is why they have an external skeleton, and some, like mussels and snails have shell.

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) eats fish, marine invertebrates such as cephalopods.

Australian Snubfin Dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) eats fish, squid and crustaceans.

By JBColorado

Indo-pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) eats fish, mainly schooling fish.

Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) eats fish and squid.

Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) eats fish and cephalopods.

Looking for anything?

Custom Search

Translate this page to your own language!

NOTE: This website is written in British English, which is the English we use in Australia. You will find words like "traveller", "harbour" and "realise", and they are all correct in the language used in Australia.

Home | Site Map | Site Policies | About Us | Our Friends| Contact Us