{"id":54721,"date":"2020-09-24T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?p=54721"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:21:20","slug":"three-different-dolphin-species-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/three-different-dolphin-species-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Three different dolphin species today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A morning full of dolphins! Today we were really lucky, we sighted three species of dolphins! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, we had to travel a little bit far away, close to Vila Franca islet, but there we found a huge group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> (Tursiops truncatus<\/em>), one of the resident species! They were really curious, and spent a lot of time bow-riding in front of our catamaran. Did you know that every individual is different? Each one has their own scars, pigmentation, shape of the fin, … all these characteristics help us identify them individually. By taking photos of them, we can use a technique called Photo-identification, which allows us to identify the different individuals of a group of dolphins, and together with data taken at the time of those pictures, such as location, we can also identify residence patterns. For example, today we recognized “Halfie”, a dolphin first seen in 2018, really easy to identify since it only has half of the fluke! <\/p>\n\n\n\n