How to Draw Dolphin in 6 Easy Steps | Dolphins Lifespan | Dolphin facts for kids | Dolphins habitat | Dolphins representative species | Where do dolphins live | Common bottlenose dolphin | What do dolphins eat | Bottlenose dolphin facts

Today's Tutorial is how to draw dolphin jumping out of the water. As you know the dolphin is a very mammoth giant water animal. Dolphin lives in the ocean. Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of water mammals.

The dolphins comprise the enduring families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins)

Dolphins are terribly intelligent and they seem to be excellently loved by humans. Dolphin has the power to impress us in a variety of ways. They're curious, kind robust bonds within their pod, and they have been known to assist humans in a variety of circumstances including rescues and with fishing.

Drawing of dolphin are easy and kids the kids love to draw a dolphin. we love to see dolphin's water performance. Dolphin can be a good friend of human, we just need to give training and nurturing them well. 

The dolphin possess are really the authentic and elegant movement that am draw here e step 1. Dolphin appears like a fish but the fact is dolphin is a mammal. It is very easy to draw a dolphin. In this step draw the elongated oval part, the head and a tail of the dolphin. This is animated drawing. So, I prefer you to go with the light 2H pencil, Draw roughly and don't press too hard in the beginning just use the light strokes.

Now let's draw the fin and the tail. Draw a small oval shape on the bigger elongated oval shape and add a line for the fin. Add two parallel lines so that the line of the tail in the (step 1) lies between the two parallel lines.

Draw a curved line to connect the head with the body of the dolphin. Draw the fins. As we all know the dolphin is a graceful animal. So, that make all the edges perfect and smooth. Draw some more lines to ensure the basic shape of this elegant dolphin.

Draw the two side lower fins and also draw the nose and the eye. Just draw a small circle for the eye and the nose is divided into two parts. Try to draw the fins accurately. Now time to draw the tail fins. 

Erase all the unnecessary lines for the perfect looking dolphin. In this step, you will need to work on all the details and make them smooth and correct.

Need some shading! shade the dolphin. Shading will give it a good volume and appears like a realistic dolphin. If you want to portray the dolphin jumping out of the water you will need to colour it to convey the real beauty of the dolphin.
Use crayon, water colour, poster colour or sketch pens to colour the dolphin and make them alive by colouring it.

The final step to draw a dolphin and your dolphin is ready!!!

Dolphin jumping out of the water

Dolphins Lifespan

Striped Dolphin = 55 years to 60 years

Pantropical Spotted Dolphin = 40 years

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin = 40 years

Big Dolphin(Killer Whale) = 40 years

Chinese white dolphin = 45 years

Dolphin facts for kids or interesting

The Interesting Facts about Dolphin>>> "There are 43 different species of dolphins that have been recognised. 38 of them are marine dolphins which are those that we are the most aware of and 5 of them are river dolphins. It can be very fascinating to peer at each of these species distinctive versus Dolphins as a whole"

They are very entertaining due to the leaps that they make out of the water. Some of them leap up to 30 feet in the air as they do so. They have to come to the surface to for water at different intervals to get air. This can be from 20 seconds to 30 minutes between when they get air. The body of the dolphin is greyish blue and the skin is very sensitive to human touch and to other elements that could be in the water.

Dolphins have 100 teeth, Dolphin doesn't use them for eating. They use them to get the fish and swallow them. They can consume up to thirty pounds fish every day. They usually work as a team in their pod to get the school of fish surrounded and balled up. From there, they can plough through the middle and eat plenty as they do so.

dolphins have 100 teeths and they don;t use them to eat. they do use them to urge the fish although then they swallow them. they will consume up to thirty pounds fish per day. they sometimes work as a team in their pod to urge the group of fish encircled and balled up. From there, they will struggle through the center and eat plenty as they do so.

Dolphins habitat

There are locations all over the world where you will find dolphins habitat. They live in all of the oceans and seas as well as in some rivers. They are considered to be polite nature and they have a magnetic draw to them that is hard to pass up. They are often found by people who are in boats or on the coast and most of the dolphin species live in saltwater

Dolphins representative species

The common dolphin representative species are: -

• Risso’s dolphin
• Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
• Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis/capensis)
• Common Bottlenose Dolphin 

Where do dolphins live?

Dolphin lives in the ocean, seas, river and dolphin also found in salt water.

Common bottlenose dolphin

These friendly, curious and playful dolphins are dark grey or sometimes bluish or brownish grey, with paler lower sides and lighter belly. They have a short, stubby beak, a high dorsal fin, long slender pointed flippers, and pointed fluke. The coasts of Devon and Cornwall are habitat to a group of forty bottlenose dolphins, which move widely and can be very difficult to find.

What do dolphins eat

What do dolphins eat???
Do you know???

Each species of dolphin have their different taste of foods and varies from place to place.

Some dolphins eat small fishes like herring, cod or mackerel, some others eat squids or other cephalopods.

Even more, the bigger family of dolphins like killer whales, eat marine mammals like seals or sea lions and sometimes even turtles.

On average, a dolphin with a weight of 200 – 250 Kg will eat between 10 Kg to 25 Kg of fish every day.

Bottlenose dolphin facts

• The bottlenose dolphin is an averagely sized dolphin that can be travelling throughout the world's tropical and sub-tropical environments.

• Bottlenose Dolphin Known for their awesome sense of intelligence, the curiosity of humans and boisterous aerial acrobatics the bottlenose dolphin is well-known and loved species throughout the world.

• The bottlenose dolphin has a greyish coloured skin tone.

• Below the body of the bottlenose dolphin is much lighter in colour and is closer to white than grey.

• Dolphins size can reach lengths between 6.5 – 13.5 ft and weigh between 300 – 1,400 lbs. when fully matures.