Maui Dolphin

Student raps about dolphins

Ms Schollum's Year 9 science class was asked to make a presentation on NZ organisms that looks at their adaptations. This stand presentation by Quinton Turner's is a rap about Maui Dolphins.

Maui Dolphins

I choose Maui dolphins because they're the best

But they keep dying from some lazy human pests


You can locate them in the 2.8.1

On the west coast, shores is where it all began


We fish all their food so they're left in hunger

So every year they start dying younger and younger


They die commonly from massive fishing nets

It suffocates there gills like burning cigarettes


They're the rarest native animal in Aotearoa

Their time in this world is nearly over


There max lifespan is around 20 years

Their life is shorter than a brown bear's


The structural adaptations for these dolphins

Is that they can basically conserve oxygen


It uses their own blowhole to breathe

It swims at the same time just with eeze


Did you know that they're the smallest species of their kind

You probably already knew their bodies are streamlined


They have a pretty cool behavioral adaptation

It's were their family forms a pod formation


It’s apparently a form of communication

So they all know they’re in the same location


The physiological adaptation for these rare fishes heap

Is that their brain is half awake when they are asleep


That concludes my Maui dolphin rap

Ok I think I deserve a well-rested nap.