What are the similarities/differences between dolphins and whales?
What dolphins are found off New Jersey? Dolphins are whales. In fact, the killer whale is just a big dolphin! Technically, the toothed-whale family Delphinidae contains all of the dolphins except the freshwater species. The real differences are between toothed whales (including dolphins) and baleen whales. For example, toothed whales have teeth and baleen whales have baleen. Toothed whales have one blowhole and baleen whales have two. A wide variety of dolphins can be found off New Jersey: bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, killer whales, striped dolphins, whitesided dolphins, etc. Bottlenose dolphins are the most common near shore. Why does the dolphin’s skin feel slimy and rubbery? While the bottlenose dolphin’s skin may feel rubbery, it certainly isn’t slimy. Dolphins don’t have skin glands. Dolphin skin grows rapidly and is very flexible. It helps with streamlining. Why don’t dolphins have all those crusty barnacles on them like whales? Actually, many species of dolphins do have ba
