Showing posts with label Pantropical Spotted Dolphin. Dolphin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pantropical Spotted Dolphin. Dolphin. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2019

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.









INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN

Photographed at Tin Can Bay, Queensland, January 2021   129                   INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN             Sousa chinensis AUST...