Hector’s Dolphin
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My First Hector’s Dolphin – 9/6/24
Wooohooo! FINALLY saw my first ever Hectors dolphin here in beautiful Ōtepoti / Dunedin in Aotearoa/ New Zealand yesterday! This lil dude and his friend rode the bow of @monarchwildlife for a wee while as we ventured out to sea to find northern royal albatrosses ???? These endangered beauties are the rarest dolphins in the world –…
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The Naming of Things: Hector’s and Maui’s Dolphins
A decent rule of thumb when investigating the naming of things is that when a species’ common name is capitalized then it’s usually named after either a person or a place. So, in the case of the Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins this seems like an open and shut case: Some scientist named Hector discovered the…