Photo: Bramans · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 2.5 to 3.8 m
- 🌊 deep lagoons, passes and coasts
- 🛡️ Least Concern (IUCN)
The common bottlenose dolphin is the best-known dolphin among the general public: grey, with a short beak, it lives in groups that cooperate to hunt. It communicates with whistles and clicks and recognises its fellows by their « signature whistle ». Curious, it readily follows boats and plays in the bow wave.
Did you know?
In the Tiputa pass at Rangiroa, bottlenose dolphins regularly come to surf the waves of the pass and play with divers' bubbles: a famous attraction of Polynesia.
Source: Dive observations at Rangiroa
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Grand dauphin.
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