AmazingEarth's video: Dancing With Dolphins: Spectacular GoPro Hero 3

Dancing With Dolphins: Spectacular! GoPro Hero 3 A very lovely video showing lots of dolphins swimming around. It was caught using a GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition in South Australia. Dolphins are highly intelligent marine mammals and are part of the family of toothed whales that includes orcas and pilot whales. They are found worldwide, mostly in shallow seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. Dolphin coloration varies, but they are generally gray in color with darker backs than the rest of their bodies. Dolphins are well known for their agility and playful behavior, making them a favorite of wildlife watchers. Many species will leap out of the water, spy-hop (rise vertically out of the water to view their surroundings) and follow ships, often synchronizing their movements with one another. Scientists believe that dolphins conserve energy by swimming alongside ships, a practice known as bow-riding. Dolphins live in social groups of five to several hundred. They use echolocation to find prey and often hunt together by surrounding a school of fish, trapping them and taking turns swimming through the school and catching fish. Dolphins will also follow seabirds, other whales and fishing boats to feed opportunistically on the fish they scare up or discard. There are 43 different species of dolphins that have been recognized. 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 interesting to look at each of these species uniquely 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 grayish blue and the skin is very sensitive to human touch and to other elements that could be in the water. For more information on dolphins visit: Dolphin Facts and Information: http://www.dolphins-world.com/ Basic Facts about Dolphins: http://www.defenders.org/dolphin/basic-facts 6 Places to swim with Dolphins: http://www.minitime.com/trip-tips/6-Places-to-Swim-with-Dolphins-article Attribution: Lodewijk van Eekhout - Mes copains les dauphins... Original video can be found at: https://vimeo.com/91605449 Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/