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Bottlenose Dolphin

Delphinidae Tursiops

Photo by JessyZich
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

The famous dolphins of Monkey Mia come to the shores every morning around 7am. to greet tourists and wait for a few fish handouts. Research on the dolphins has been going on since the early 1960's

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Comments (5)
JessyZich
Marta, great book right, this is a pic of Nicky one of the main dolphins from the book. This is her baby Finn!
KatiaAntunes
That is great that people treat them with dignity that's how it should be :D
The MnMs
I love this!! I read a book about the dolphins in Monkey Mia: "To Touch A Wild Dolphin" by Rachel Smolker. I was fascinated by this story. Love to see these dolphins now here in Noah :-)
JessyZich
Thanks, better in real life though!
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PublishedOctober 29, 2011

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