Behavior
Chinese white dolphins rise to the water surface to breathe every 20 to 30 seconds and after that, they will dive into deep water again. A calf dolphin surfaces from the water twice as much as an adult, because calves have smaller lung capacities than adults. Adult dolphins can stay underwater for about two to eight minutes, but a calf can only stay underwater for one to three minutes. Adult dolphins rarely stay under water for more than four minutes. They sometimes jump out of water, exposing their whole bodies. Besides this, white dolphins also come up vertically out of the water, exposing the dorsal half of their bodies. They have a pair of protruding eyes and they can see clearly in both air and water.
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