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Today, we saw all our resident species of dolphins! In the morning, a numerous group of common dolphins welcomed us at sea.
They are quite a curious species, so they frequently surround our catamaran swimming really close to it. These dolphins have an amazing pattern of 4 different colours, amazing to see underwater. Some of our guests went into the water to swim with them as they booked our swimming with dolphins tour.
After that, we travelled west up to Rocha da Relva to observe some bottlenose dolphins and Risso’s dolphins that our spotter sighted.
The Risso’s group seemed to be formed by already marked as well as fully white adult males and some juveniles still brownish! Some of these individuals are part of our resident group!
In the afternoon the bottlenose group was more numerous and active than the ones from the morning, although in both sightings we caught some interesting social and foraging behaviours. Also, at the afternoon we sighted some Bottlenose resident individuals more frequently sighted, their names are: Egípcio, submarine and twisted. We also give them names to increase the proximity we get with these animals.
Our way back was made near the shore watching the beautiful shoreline with the volcanic history all exposed for us to read it!
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
