Dolphins - Teeth and Mouth

An adult Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins mouth contains 80-100 cone-shaped teeth. These teeth serve as a defensive tool, a means to discipline other less dominant members of the pod, and for gripping. The dolphin does not chew its food, swallowing fish whole, the most comfortable way head first. Salt water is squeezed out of the mouth as it swallows. The fresh water a dolphin requires comes from the fish, squid and crustaceans it eats; not from its watery environment.

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