Text Box: Where to look One of the most popular viewpoints is New Quay. A crowd gathered on the village quayside is often a sign that the dolphins are in. They come quite close to the harbour wall, feeding around a reef not far from shore. Another good watching place is the New Quay lookout, a renovated coastguard's hut overlooking Bird Rock... so even if you don't see a dolphin, you're likely to see all kinds of seabirds here. The Chough - Britain's rarest crow - is a frequent visitor to these cliffs, as well as Razorbills and Guillemots. Bottlenose Dolphins—the facts Bottlenose Dolphins are mammals; incredibly mothers nurse their calves with milk from their mammary glands. They grow to around 3.1 - 3.7 metres (10 - 12 foot) and usually live for up to 30 years. Dolphins are able to swim at speeds of up to 32 kilometres per hour, although they generally prefer to amble about the ocean at a more modest 5 to 12 kilometres per hour. They are able to swim to depths of up to 260 metres and can stay as much as 15 minutes under water at a time, but, as they need access to air in the surface, they are shallow divers and generally swim close to the surface. Bottlenose Dolphins find food and navigate by sending ultrasounds through the water which bounce back and are detected by the dolphin in an organ called a mellon, which, in a technique called echolocation, decodes the message very much like a sonar. Dolphins are social beings and, working as a team, cooperate with one another in the hunt for food, they eat fish, squid and other smaller sea life and consume up to 30 pounds of food per day. Bottlenose Dolphins are warm-blooded; their internal temperature is around 36 degrees. To maintain this temperature they are surrounded just below the skin by a thick layer of fat called “blubber”. This fat, allow dolphins to resist cold temperatures and regulate their body temperature. Compared with the average human brain which weighs between 1200-1300 grammes, the brain of the Bottlenose Dolphin weighs an average 1500-1600 grammes. This brain capacity is a clear indication that dolphins have at least the potential of higher intelligence, which may explain why they are such great communicators as they make a unique signature whistle that may help individual dolphins recognize each other or perform any other kind of communication. Dolphins even make noises so loud that can stun fish.

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