Hector Dolphin

Food Webs

DESCRIBE

A hector dolphin doesn't feed on a wide variety of food this is due to limited depth they can travel. Hector dolphin usually feed on small fish but they have also been known to consume squid and mollusks. Even though Hector Dolphins deaths aren't usually caused by predators there are still a few Hector Dolphins killed by predators. The main predators are the sevengill and blue sharks.Although humans also consume fish which as I have mentioned is one of the main food for the Hector Dolphins. Since I am already creating a food web I should mention that fish can either consume other smaller fish while others are bottom feeders who may feed on plankton, insects etc.

Here is a Food Web it sorry for not including all of the animals.

The predators that feed on the Hector Dolphin do not only feed on them. In fact for one of these predators to eat a Hector Dolphin is so rare that if the Hector dolphin were to die off then it would have no major effect. Also if the Hector Dolphin was extinct it would have no major effect on its prey. The food the Hector Dolphin feeds on is commonly consumed by other animals that it would still stay around the same population 

Refrences:

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Cephalorhynchus_hectori/
http://www.imms.org/dolphinfaq.php