Information News Questions Animals Multimedia Environmental SeaWorld Partners Feedback Home Discovery Cove is an outgrowth of SeaWorld's 35 years of experience with marine animals. With a reputation unmatched around the world, SeaWorld currently cares for the largest zoological population of marine animals in the world. Males may be slightly larger than females. Adults weigh between 300-650 lb.
Dolphins are active predators and eat a wide variety of fishes, squids, crustaceans such as shrimps.
Both young and old dolphins chase one another, carry objects around, toss seaweed to one another, and use objects to invite each other to interact. Such activity may be practice for catching food. Extremely social mammals, dolphins communicate with squeaking, grunting, trilling and moaning sounds. In addition to playful Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Discovery Cove's animals include sleek southern and cow nose rays, schools of brilliantly colored tropical fish, fearsome barracuda, sharks and 300 exotic birds in a free-flight aviary. Click here to see an extensive list of the species you can experience at Discovery Cove.