What’s on the Menu?
Since 1970, we’ve been studying Sarasota Bay’s dolphin community — getting to know their lineages, their companions and even their favorite hangouts. But understanding the dynamics of a population of...
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F295
Dolphin F295StatsName: F295 (formerly C79A) Sex: Female Age: Born 2021 A Dolphin’s LifeWe’ve observed F295 more than 50 times since our first sighting of her as a newborn on April 7, 2021. She was the...
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Understanding Offshore Dolphin Behavior
High-resolution data-loggers reveal fine-scale movement and foraging behavior of offshore dolphins “Bill,” an Atlantic spotted dolphin, with a satellite-linked tag on his dorsal fin and DTAG on his...
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Eye in the Sky
Using Aerial Drones for Dolphin Research SDRP has a long history of taking to the skies to study dolphins. In the 1990s and early 2000s, a video camera suspended from a tethered blimp was used to get...
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F249
Dolphin F249StatsName: F249 Sex: Female Age: Born 2011 A Dolphin’s LifeWe first observed F249 as a young-of-the-year calf of F185. Since then, we’ve documented 117 sightings of her, including our most...
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Dolphin Conservation Takes a Team Effort
Dolphin conservation is a team effort — from working together to understand dolphins and their communities, to understanding and mitigating the risks they face around the world. Every year, we spend...
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Dolphin Play and Reproduction
Playful Young Male Dolphins in Western Australia Grow Up to Have More Offspring Photo by Shark Bay Dolphin Research As humans, we grow up playing with other children. Animals of many species likewise...
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Offshore Research Update
June 2024 Offshore Dolphin Research Update Since 2022, we’ve been conducting health assessments of offshore dolphins to gather data needed to address critical information gaps for the little-known...
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Dolphin F312 Injured by Boat
Boat Collision Injures Sarasota Bay Dolphin In July 2024, members of the public reported a dolphin with an injured dorsal fin. Subsequent surveys by the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program allowed us to...
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Dolphin Rescue: 2615
2615 Rescued from Fishing Line Entanglement During our May 2024 dolphin health assessments, we conducted a disentanglement on a 4-year-old male dolphin. 2615, is a calf seen infrequently in our study...
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Dolphin Rescue: Roy Kent
Fishing Line Cuts Like a Saw — Rescuing “Roy Kent” Starting in February 2024, we made numerous attempts to remotely disentangle an 8-year-old, 7.5-foot, 315-pound male dolphin nicknamed “Roy Kent”...
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New Dolphin Calves — 2024
Oh Baby! Meet the 2024 Sarasota Bay Dolphin Calves! 2075 is the first young-of-the-year (YOY) Sarasota Bay dolphin of 2024! We captured this image on May 7. If you look closely at the calf, you can see...
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GoMDIS: Investigating the Life of a Stranded Dolphin
Dolphin ID Catalog Uncovers Life History of Dolphin Recovered on North Florida Beach In July 2024, Gulf World Marine Institute (GWMI) submitted dorsal fin pictures of a deceased bottlenose dolphin they...
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A Tangled Food Web
Paper Provides New Insights on How Microplastics are Moving From Prey to Predator A new research paper based on studies conducted in Sarasota Bay is providing insights on how microplastics are moving...
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Stow it! Don’t Throw It!
Creating Monofilament Collectors to Help Save Dolphins from Entanglement Did you know that monofilament fishing line can take up to 600 years to decompose and that it takes even longer for braided...
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Microplastics Detected in Dolphin Breath
Every Breath They Take? New Study Suggests Dolphins are Inhaling Plastics A member of the SDRP research team holds a petri dish over a dolphin’s blowhole to collect a breath sample during a health...
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