Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 1.7 to 2.1 m
- 🌊 lagoons, passes and coasts; large groups
- 🛡️ Least Concern (IUCN)
The spinner dolphin is a small, slender dolphin with a thin beak. It is known for its spectacular leaps during which it spins several times around its axis, hence its English name « spinner ». It rests by day in calm waters near the coasts and hunts at night offshore. It is the most common dolphin in Tahiti, according to La Poste de Polynésie.
Did you know?
Schools of spinner dolphins are a classic encounter for visitors to Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora: you can sometimes see them leap from the boat at sunrise.
Source: La Poste de Polynésie (circular on cetaceans)
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Dauphin à long bec.
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