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Alimantha and south Thursday March 13, 2003

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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: 3.7 Longitude: 73.4949

Trip Summary

By all accounts a pretty amazing day for cetaceans. It started with a group of 15-20 Spinner Dolphins at the reef as we left at dawn, swimming slowly along the outside of the reef, followed by a group of Bottlenose Dolphins just beyond. Later in the day we stopped to watch about 15 Short-finned Pilot Whales that milled around the vessel and spy-hopped for about an hour. Two Dwarf Sperm Whales were the first for this trip (a Maldives speciality, particularly easy to see here but otherwise very rarely reported at sea). A futher 3 Short-finned Pilot Whales were seen during the day, along with a group of about 150 "offshore" type Bottlenose Dolphins.

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