Bottlenose dolphins
This reading profile brings together 2 source-linked articles that reference bottlenose dolphins.
Fauna does not yet have a full sourced identification profile for this name, so this page keeps the relevant reading together without inventing missing species detail.Source-linked reading
- Field guideHow dolphins sleep with half their brainDuring unihemispheric sleep, strong slow waves occupy one cerebral hemisphere while the other remains in a more wake-like state. The sides alternate over time; this is neither total wakefulness nor a neat division in which exactly half of every brain system switches off.
- Field guideTen animals that look cute and friendly until they feel threatenedWanting to touch a wild animal is not foolishness; it is a wired response to a set of physical features, and it fires whether or not the animal is safe. The animals below are all things people reach for. Their defences run from a venomous ankle spur to a virus with an 80 per cent untreated fatality rate, and almost none of them are visible until they are used.