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Why do Dolphins Jump in the air?


Why do dolphins jump in the air?

There is not a single scientific answer about why dolphins jump in the air.

Some of the explanations include:

- Dolphins jump in the air to save energy as it consumes less energy going traveling through the air than through the water.

- Dolphins jump to locate some other pod or to find food by looking above the water for signs of food like feeding birds or any other indication of food location.

- Dolphins do it to communicate to other dolphins or pods to hunt together of anything else.

- Dolphins jump only for fun.

- Dolphins jump to get rid of parasites.

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