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Gurhaidou Channel Tuesday March 11, 2003

From a trip titled:

Maldives Whale Watching with Chas Anderson

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Bottlenose Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphin - There are generally recognised two species of Bottlenose Dolphin, a cosmopolitan form (truncatus) that occurs throughout the world and  another confined to ... [>>]

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Latitude: 4.14 Longitude: 73.505

Trip Summary

A group of 200 Spinner Dolphins on the way out of the channel. Spinners pass into the atolls during the day, returning to feed at night. A good place to go snorkelling in the morning...good chance of a close pass with groups, though they tended to stay their distance from swimmers.

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Observation Summary

Species	No.
Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)	557
Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)	308