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DOLPHINS

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SMILING FACE

No other animal is as pleasant and friendly
towards human beings as are dolphins. Their docility and

friendly manners are obvious from their faces.
During delivery, first the tail, then the body and finally the head

of the baby dolphin appear. In order to feed it, the mother dolphin
contracts and loosens her milk glands, thereby spraying her milk
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into its mouth. You can compare this to squeezing a plastic bottle
with your hands to spurt out the milk it contains.

Mammals do not need this spraying system to nurse their young.
However, such a method is essential in water. Could the mother

dolphin herself think up and develop such a system? Could it be
possible that she felt the necessity for such a system and

supplemented her milk glands with muscles? As you can imagine,
this is implausible! As we stressed earlier, Allah created the body of

the mother dolphin in a manner that is extraordinarily suitable for
the baby dolphin's needs.

The respiratory system of the dolphin is also similar to that of
human beings. Yet, unlike human beings, its nostrils are not in the

middle of its face but on the top of its head. Like human beings,
dolphins, too, inhale air before they dive under water and they