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w.a.l.t we are learning about marine creatures.


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Diet

Maui dolphins love to eat small fish , squid and dwelling species such as flat fish.maui dolphins don’t just open their mouth and eat they have to use different hunting techniques to catch the fish.

Habitat

Maui dolphins live in Inshore waters ,shallow coastal waters and maunganui bluff.They also tend to stay close to the beach by the Rocks to hide from their predators.


Population


Maui dolphins have a population of 15,000.Since march 2001 seven maui dolphins have been found dead.However five of these maui dolphins deaths was caused due to fishing one of the other maui dolphins died cause of natural causes and they did not find out what the sevens maui dolphins death was caused by.

Breeding

Did you know Maui dolphins only breed one calf every 2 - 4 years and They start breeding when they are 7-9 ?





Predators


Maui dolphins predators are killer whales , hector ‘s dolphins , orcas , mako sharks and bronze whaler sharks. However since maui dolphins live in shallow waters, they face attacks from outside predators.

How long maui dolphins live for

Sadly maui dolphins only live up to 20 years of age.This is a short lifespan compared to other dolphins and whales .

How tall


Female maui dolphins normally are 1.7m.male dolphins are slightly smaller than female maui dolphins they are a whopping 1.00m.

Facts

Maui dolphins are native to new zealand.


Maui dolphins don't tend to stay in one place for long.

As they have been found to travel 80.km in under three


weeks .

Yet they only tend to use about 30.km of shoreline.

Thank You for reading my writing about maui dolphins and I hope you learned more about maui dolphins.

by Isabella



I found this easy because we got to research.