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The dolphins' heart rates increased during ascent. The heart rates during a dive of these actively swimming dolphins were similar to heart rates of a sedentary dolphin at 2 m depth, showing that the heart rate response in diving dolphins is dominated by the diving response and not by an exercise response.
For example, heart rate, metabolic rate and transport cost was reduced by up to 70% during wave-riding compared to swimming at speeds 1 m/s slower in bottlenose dolphin. [19] Wave-riding behaviour can be performed by dolphins from minutes up to several hours, [19] and therefore is a useful energy-saving mechanism for swimming at higher speeds.
Diving reflex in a human baby. The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date.
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).
[28] [29] Considering the species' ability to dive to almost 10,000 ft (3,000 m), and remain underwater for over two hours, at times, there are suggestions that they may likely be able to collapse or flatten their rib cage, and possibly their heart, lungs or other organs, while simultaneously decreasing their heart rate while at-depth. [30]
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