Can A Dolphin Drown In The Ocean. A Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin was caught in a crab trap buoy line and had only minutes to live as it was literally drowning!!! If the dolphin gets stuck or damages it's tail it can't swim up. so it will drown .
Thanks to its sense of echolocation, a dolphin can hear the heartbeat and realize when a person is helpless. A dolphin's brain lacks an olfactory system (sense of smell) Vocalization. Unlike fish, the gill bearing aquatic craniate animals which are more evolved to the underwater world, dolphin and whales have lungs and breathe air through a blowhole on the top of their head..
If the dolphin gets stuck or damages it's tail it can't swim up. so it will drown .
The sound of human speech falls well within this range, so dolphin can hear what we say.
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group reminds the public to exercise "extreme caution" around dolphins after a report that a bottlenose dolphin "aggressively" pushed a man underwater off the County. Dolphin calves are born tail first, rather than head first, so that they don't drown during the birthing process. It looks like they are smiling and they are definitely watching you.