Lake Dolphin

The Lake Dolphin (Tursiops mississippiensis) also known as the Mississippi River Dolphin, Great Lakes Dolphin, Purple Bottlenose Dolphin, North American River Dolphin, and Freshwater Bottlenose Dolphin is a North American species of Freshwater Dolphin that inhabits deep lakes, rivers, bogs, and swamps. Some of the subspecies are often also called depending on where they live like the Reindeer Lake, Lake Winnipeg, Great Bear Lake, and Lake Winnebago dolphins. The Lake Dolphin feeds on a variety of fish like whitefish, burbots, trout, charr, sunfish, bass, and perch. They will also eat invertebrates like crayfish, freshwater shrimp, aquatic insects and their larvae, freshwater mussels, and snails.