The Effects of Conscious Breathing on Dolphins

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Dolphin species don't hold their breath all that long like there are some human divers who can hold their breath longer than some dolphin species. They do come up to breathe quite a bit so usually they surface two to three times a minute to breathe but they can on average hold their breath for around 10 minutes. The mammalian record is a beaked whale that lasted 222 minutes underwater without breathing or 3.7 hours in the 1962 film Lorentz of Arabia. A tom cruise can hold its breath for six minutes and a katwinzlet can famously best that with a seven minute and 15 second breath hold too. If you see a sleeping dolphin they will have one eye closed and the other

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