🐬 Bottlenose dolphin vs Sailfish 🐟
The sailfish is a bit bigger than the bottlenose dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin weighs about 7 times as much as the sailfish.
| Row | 🐬 Bottlenose dolphin | 🐟 Sailfish |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the bottlenose dolphin yet. | no checked number yet | 68 mph109 km/h1 |
| Weight The bottlenose dolphin weighs about 7 times as much as the sailfish. | 300 to 1,400 lb136 to 635 kg2 | 128 lb58 kg3 |
| Lives We don't have a checked number for the sailfish yet. | 40 to 60 years40 to 60 years2 | no checked number yet |
| Eats Both eat fish. | fish, squid and shrimp | small fish such as sardines and anchovies, and squid |
| Lives in They can live in the same kind of place. | warm and mild seas all over the world, near the shore and far out | the warm Pacific and Indian oceans |
Which one? Bottlenose dolphin or sailfish
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the bottlenose dolphin yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/bottlenose-dolphin-vs-sailfish
Where these numbers come from
- NOAA National Ocean Service, Ocean Facts feed ('What is the fastest fish in the ocean?'), checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fishery Bulletin 78(3), 1980 (Beardsley and others, Atlantic sailfish), checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean (Istiophorus platypterus), checked 30 October 2026.