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Bottlenose dolphins communicate in various ways including vocalizations, body language, and echolocation. They each develop a unique whistle at birth that is used for identification similar to a human name. Dolphins also use echolocation by emitting clicks that bounce off objects and return echoes to help them navigate and hunt. Bottlenose dolphins cooperate with each other to find food and protect the group.

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Bottlenose dolphins communicate in various ways including vocalizations, body language, and echolocation. They each develop a unique whistle at birth that is used for identification similar to a human name. Dolphins also use echolocation by emitting clicks that bounce off objects and return echoes to help them navigate and hunt. Bottlenose dolphins cooperate with each other to find food and protect the group.

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Reading Comprehension Test

Submitted by Thannalin Patthanapan (Benz) 1008

Thought to be some of the smartest animals on Earth, bottlenose dolphins send


messages to one another in many different ways. They squeak, squawk and use body
language—leaping as high as 20 feet in the air, snapping their jaws, slapping their tails on the
surface of the water, blowing bubbles and even butting heads. Each dolphin has a special
Line 5 whistle that it creates soon after it is born. This whistle is used for identification, just like a
human’s name. Dolphins also produce high frequency clicks, which act as a sonar system
called echolocation (ek-oh-low-KAY-shun). When the clicking sounds hit an object in the
water, like a fish or rock, they bounce off and come back to the dolphin as echoes.
Echolocation tells the dolphins the shape, size, speed, distance, and location of the object.

Bottlenose dolphins have a sharp sense of hearing. Scientists believe that the sounds
travel through the dolphin's lower jaw to its inner ear and then are transmitted to the brain for
Line 12 analysis. Dolphins grow to be anywhere from 6 to 12 feet long. They shed their outermost
layer of skin every two hours. Very social and playful mammals, bottlenose dolphins form
friendships that last decades hunting, mating and protecting each other. They like to surf in
the waves and wakes of boats and swim through self-made bubble rings. They can swim up
to 22 miles an hour.

These sea mammals feed on fish, squid and shrimp. A group of dolphins will
cooperate to make a mud ring to trap fish. Then, some of the dolphins in the group will wait
Line 19 outside the ring for the fish that try to escape, gulping them up as a snack. Bottlenose
dolphins are found in warm water all over the world. They live both in shallow water close to
shore and far out in deep dark water.

References:

Bottlenose Dolphin. (n.d.). Retrieved from nationalgeographic:


https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bottlenose-dolphin/#world-oceans-day-
dolphins.jpg

Summary: Bottlenose dolphins send messages in a variety of ways. Vocalizations are the
special physical characteristics of dolphins to communicate and identify conditions. Dolphins
cooperate with one another in order to survive. Also, they have a clear sense of hearing that
the sound travels through the dolphin's lower jaw to the inner ear and sends it to the brain for
analysis.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?

a. way of how the bottlenose dolphins send signals and communicate


b. physical characteristics of bottlenose dolphins
c. relationship between bottlenose dolphins and human
d. vocalization of bottlenose dolphins

2. What is the function of the whistle of dolphins?

a. Imitating predator’s voice


b. Capturing the prey’s attention
c. disrupting the predator
d. analyzation

3. The dolphins can grow from

a. 6 to 12 feet long
b. 7 to 12 feet long
c. 8 to 13 feet long
d. 4 to 10 feet long
e.

4. According to the second paragraph, the dolphins shed their outermost layer of skin
every

a. 30 minutes
b. 3 hours
c. 2 hours
d. 50 minutes

5. The phrase " leaping " in line 3 is closest in meaning to

a. Jumping
b. forward
c. thriving
d. rounding
6. The phrase "gulping" in line 19 is closest in meaning to

a. swallowing
b. ranging
c. torturing
d. chasing

7. The word " they" in line 8 refers to the


a. Dolphins
b. echolocation
c. clicking sound
d. rock

8. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 2 about bottlenose dolphin EXCEPT:
a. sense of hearing
b. shed of skin
c. habitat of dolphins
d. interaction with one another

9. Which of the following is true about this passage?


a. Dolphins is the most harmless animal in the world
b. Dolphins live in cold deep water
c. Dolphins use wave signals to communicate with one another
d. Dolphins create whistle through their vocal cords in the larynx

10. Which of the following is false?


a. Dolphins use Echolocation for communication underwater
b. Dolphins create a whistle since they were born
c. Dolphins use clicking sounds to create echoes
d. Dolphins are known as isolated animals

Answer key:

1. a 2. d 3. a 4. c 5. a 6. b 7. c 8. c 9. c 10. c

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