Plan your day ahead of time by downloading our mobile app on the iTunes App Store or the Google Play store and browse our Daily Schedule to view times for our dolphin presentation and our Under the Boardwalk sea lion presentation, gallery features and more.Choose the date and time of your arrival, and arrive within an hour of your selected time. Purchase tickets online to save money.Hours of operation vary daily please check our calendar before your visit.For additional questions regarding the stroller policy and exemptions, please contact 404.581.4000 or ahead of your visit. Guests that need to utilize specialty strollers or wagons for medical or sensory purposes are exempt from this policy. Wagons, wagon strollers, push cars, jogging strollers and ride-ons are not permitted in order to ensure guests of all ages and abilities can maneuver through the Aquarium safely.Strollers cannot be larger than 29” (72 cm) in width and 52” (132 cm) in length.We listened to guest feedback on how to make it easier to move through the Aquarium and made changes to our policy to help all guests view our animals and exhibits up close and with more ease. We have updated our stroller policy beginning June 20, 2023. If you choose to bring a stroller on your next visit, we ask that you follow our stroller policy guidelines to ensure guests of all ages have an enjoyable and safe visit. Strollers are allowed at Georgia Aquarium, but for the best experience for you and all guests we recommend leaving them at home. Beginning Environmental Leadership Program.Home School Program - Tuesdays in the Field.Dolphin Coast Presented by Margaritaville by Wyndham.In addition to hunting and entanglement in fishing gear, freshwater dolphins face the additional threat of dams fragmenting and degrading habitat.Shows & Presentations Shows & Presentations Furthermore, marine heatwaves, also caused by climate change, appear to have a negative affect on dolphins' reproductive rates and ability to survive. For maine dolphins, warming ocean temperatures because of climate change have caused some of their primary food sources to move into deeper, cooler water. Dolphins must rise regularly to the surface to breathe-becoming entangled in nets prevents this, leading to drowning. Today, their main threat comes from being caught accidentally in commercial fishing nets. Threatsįor centuries, people have hunted dolphins for their meat and blubber. They are also playful and often frolic in a boat’s wake, leaping out of the water-possibly for fun, to communicate, or even shed pesky parasites.

Dolphins have more than one mate, and generally produce a single offspring that will stay with the mother for up to six years, depending on the species.ĭolphins are graceful, sleek swimmers that can reach speeds of more than 18 miles an hour. Whether dolphins have language, as humans do, is a topic that scientists have debated for decades.Īs mammals, they have warm blood and nurse their young. Living in pods that can number a dozen or more, dolphins are intensely social mammals that communicate with squeaks, whistles, and clicks. An echolocating bottlenose dolphin can make up to a thousand clicking noises per second.

The smallest, the Maui dolphin, is just five feet long.ĭolphins feed chiefly on fish and squid, which they track using echolocation, a built-in sonar that bounces sound waves off prey and reveals information like its location, size, and shape. The largest dolphin, the orca, can grow to be over 30 feet long. There are a few species, however, like the South Asian river dolphin and the Amazon river dolphin, or boto, that live in freshwater streams and rivers. Most dolphins are marine and live in the ocean or brackish waters along coastlines. Dolphins are small-toothed cetaceans easily recognizable by their curved mouths, which give them a permanent “smile.” There are 36 dolphin species, found in every ocean.

Freshwater dolphin fish