【轻松英文阅读】海豚喜欢跳的高

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It appears dolphins like to get high and they do it intentionally¹. A team from the BBC made this discovery when making a documentary on bottlenose dolphins. The dolphin’s drug of choice is puffer fish toxin². However, they don’t actually eat the puffer fish. Such large amounts of the toxin would be deadly, but in smaller amounts it is like a narcotic³. It appears puffer fish release small amounts of toxin when they are threatened. The dolphins will gently nibble⁴ on the puffer fish to provoke them and make them produce the toxins⁵.

 

The BBC team filmed the dolphins gently chewing a puffer fish and passing it around. Afterwards, the dolphins began displaying strange behavior. For example, they would put their noses near the surface and study their own reflections in fascination⁶.

 

The documentary (link here) will begin on BBC1 in the first week of January.

 

Be sure to check out the interesting dolphin facts below.

 

Interesting Dolphin Facts

 

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Dolphins have “signature whistles” that they use like names.

 

 

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A female dolphin is called a cow, a male is called a bull and a young dolphin is called a calf⁷.

 

 

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Dolphins live in groups called pods. There are usually around 12 individuals in a pod.

 

 

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A baby dolphin born tail first.

 

 

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The killer⁸ whale (also known as Orca) is a type of dolphin.

 

 

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A dolphin sleeps with only one side of its brain at a time, so it can keep breathing and watch for threats at all times.

 

 

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A calf has a special tongue, which can shape like a straw for drinking mother’s milk without ingesting any salt water.

 

 

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Some species of dolphins live in rivers.

 

 

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A calf has a special tongue, which it can shape like a straw for drinking mother’s milk without ingesting any salt water.

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