{"id":559,"date":"2014-04-02T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-bottlenose-dolphin\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:37:16","slug":"onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-bottlenose-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-bottlenose-dolphin\/","title":{"rendered":"OneTravel Animal of the Week: The Bottlenose Dolphin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard the <em>Flipper<\/em> theme song too many times to count, but how much do you <em>really<\/em> know about the bottlenose dolphin? These stunning, powerful creatures are a sight to behold. Here are a few basic facts about the ever-smiling bottlenose:<br \/>\n<strong>Natural habitat:<\/strong> warm and temperate seas worldwide<br \/>\n<strong>Protection status: <\/strong>Secure<br \/>\n<strong>Population:<\/strong> Unknown (though there are quite a lot of them)<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSize: <\/strong>Between six and 12 feet long. They can weigh anywhere from 300 to 1400 lbs.<br \/>\n<strong>Life span:<\/strong> 40 to 50 years<br \/>\n<strong>Diet: <\/strong>small fish, crustaceans, and squid<br \/>\n<strong>Personality:<\/strong> Bottlenose dolphins can be the life of the party. Considered very social, they typically swim in groups of 10 to 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFun fact: <\/strong>They\u2019ve got a lot of brain \u2013literally. On average, a bottlenose dolphin brain can weigh up to 1,600 grams. To put that into perspective, a typical human brain weighs up to 1,300 grams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mxE3rUEqfhE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphins-world.com\/bottlenose-dolphin-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalfactguide.com\/animal-facts\/bottlenose-dolphin\/#sthash.5OZXyOUQ.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard the Flipper theme song too many times to count, but how much do you really know about the bottlenose dolphin? These stunning, powerful creatures are a sight to behold. Here are a few basic facts about the ever-smiling bottlenose: Natural habitat: warm and temperate seas worldwide Protection status: Secure Population: Unknown (though there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897731,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/98897731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}