{"id":451,"date":"2018-07-20T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/dolphins-feeding-mating-jumping3-species\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:38:04","slug":"dolphins-feeding-mating-jumping3-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/dolphins-feeding-mating-jumping3-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins feeding, mating jumping&#8230;.3 species!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">We started the day with some clouds and some rain, but that was not a&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">problem for the dolphins. Our first encounter was with a nice group of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">common dolphins, all feeding at the same time as the cory&#8217;s shearwater.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">We&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">continued the tour and now was the time for the bottlenose dolphins, it was&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">a very big pod and we could see a lot o matting behavior in the area&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">&#8230;apparently next year we will have more dolphins!&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Right in the end of the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">morning Atlantic spotted dolphins showed up out of the blue and were also&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">working for the next generation of dolphins! All this pods were full of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">babies!<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white;\">In the afternoon tour we found again the bottlenose dolphins but this time&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">they were about 100 meters from shore. It is not that normal in the Azores&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">to found dolphins so close to shore but bottlenose dolphins also look for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">food in the sea bottom, like for example octopus. In the end more common&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">dolphins appear and we spend the last minutes of the afternoon in their&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">company.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Photos by David Rodrigues<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6-8.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"506\" data-original-width=\"893\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6-8.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Common dolphins<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3-22.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"639\" data-original-width=\"958\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3-22.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Bottlenose dolphins really close to the shore<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/4-18.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"642\" data-original-width=\"964\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/4-18.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Our zodiac&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/5-10.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"698\" data-original-width=\"901\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/5-10.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>Common dolphin jumping<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">In Pico Island this morning we swam with spotted dolphins. Sometimes they were really curious with our boat and sometimes they were moving really fast as you can see in the photos taken by Rui Santos.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-25.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"507\" data-original-width=\"902\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-25.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Atlantic Spotted Dolphin<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2-24.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"511\" data-original-width=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2-24.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Atlantic Spotted Dolphin<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We started the day with some clouds and some rain, but that was not a&nbsp;problem for the dolphins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,10,20],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dolphins feeding, mating jumping....3 species! 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