PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHINS

Photographed off Scott’s Reef, Western Australia, November 2019

118                    PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHIN                    Stenella attenuata

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                       118

Abundant and highly gregarious; sometimes groups of 1000 individuals. Fast and highly acrobatic, frequently bow rides. In excess of 3 million world-wide; found in tropical and warm-temperate seas; appears to move inshore in autumn/winter.