{"id":1887,"date":"2013-01-10T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:29:34","slug":"curious-common-dolphins-surround-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious common dolphins surround our boat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/a>Today was a nice calm winters day in S\u00e3o Miguel and the ocean around the island was full of dolphins. There were groups of common dolphins<\/a> spread out across all the areas that we were travelling through, and many of them were very curious towards us. There was one group in particular that were calmly swimming right alongside our boat, looking up at us and making a lot of noise that could be heard from the boat. They were almost motionless in the calm water as they were just floating and looking up at us. They were really beautiful to watch, as you can see in our and video below (the video can also be viewed on our Youtube account<\/a>). This morning we also encountered a small group of about 6 bottlenose dolphins<\/a>. The dolphins were spending a lot of time diving, but every time they came up we got to see them well and we were able to take many good ID photos so that we can identify the individuals later (something we do as part of our research). We also had a brief encounter with a loggerhead turtle and we spotted several Portuguese man-o-war (one with a wreck fish in its tentacles), indicating that spring is on the way!<\/p>\n
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\nCommon dolphins underwater<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphin looking up at us<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphins, dark coloration. Compare to the photo above<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nWatching common dolphins around our bow<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPortuguese man-o-war<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Bottlenose dolphin diving<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose ID photo – even the smallest nicks can be used to identify the dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n Common dolphin leaping alongside us on our way home<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was a nice calm winters day in S\u00e3o Miguel and the ocean around the island was full of dolphins.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,50,103,57,289,102],"yoast_head":"\nCurious common dolphins surround our boat - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Curious common dolphins surround our boat - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today was a nice calm winters day in S\u00e3o Miguel and the ocean around the island was full of dolphins.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-10T17:21:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:29:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dd-40.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"155\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dd-40.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dd-40.jpg\",\"width\":155,\"height\":200},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/curious-common-dolphins-surround-our\/\",\"name\":\"Curious common dolphins surround our boat - 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