{"id":324,"date":"2019-01-14T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/dolphins-showing-off\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:38:47","slug":"dolphins-showing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/dolphins-showing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins showing off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">After a few days of bad weather, we finally got the chance to go out to the sea!&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\">We were able to observe two of the four resident species in the Azores.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\">The first sighting of the morning was bottlenose dolphins, a very numerous group that we sighted.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tlxcbUFQ7Dk\/XDzH2Z94iBI\/AAAAAAAAMiE\/1VfGjrscgDcr8yE7-dsXnxdKgRAAhaBQwCK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/Bottlenose%2Bdolphin.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bottlenosedolphin-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">A bottlenose dolphin near our boat<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\">T<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\">oday, we even got the chance to identify a new individual in this group, we named him Tyson, because he has a malformation in the beak.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gTu4jrUp5kw\/XDzH4hm3PxI\/AAAAAAAAMiM\/59p52RsRIv818l2pMOFD6UX2k3tW5cMbACK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/Tyson%2BBottlenose%2BDolphin.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TysonBottlenoseDolphin-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>&#8220;Tyson&#8221;, a bottlenose dolphin with a malformation<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Then, we were able to observe a group of very active common dolphins.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UcKHmrmtiJg\/XDzH_wXygnI\/AAAAAAAAMiU\/pF6iHVgqNgAUGCnVi-cs_6F2XjGJgSslQCK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/Common%2BDolphins.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CommonDolphins-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>A common dolphin in the Atlantic Ocean<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Throughout the morning, we were surrounded by traditional fishing vessels and groups of birds also fishing in the ocean, just like our dolphins who were adopting behaviours of predation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Also, we had the opportunity to observe a great skua flying above our heads.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table 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