Whale Tales

Humpback Dolphins

  • Sponge the Humpback Dolphin

    Sponge the Humpback Dolphin

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    So Australian humpback dolphins, they’re, they’re resident dolphins. So both the Australian Humpback Dolphins and the Bottlenose, what we would call old school inshore bottlenose dolphins, but I think they’re now called Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphins, as opposed to Common bottlenose dolphins, which confuses me with the Common dolphin. But yeah, so we both species…

  • Encounters with Humpback Dolphins – 3/24

    Encounters with Humpback Dolphins – 3/24

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    Great sightings of Endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, Sousa plumbea in Algoa Bay. For more information on these animals, see our website. We have been observing many of these dolphins in recent weeks. Not bad going seeing as the SA population is teetering on around 500 individuals. Our sightings have been close to King’s Beach,…

  • The Naming of Things: Humpback Whale vs Humpback Dolphin

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    One of the most well known facts about cetaceans is that the Humpback whale was named after the hump on its back, in front of its dorsal fin, which is accentuated when preparing for a deep dive. Its Genus name, Genus Megaptera, comes from the Greek “mega,” which means “large,” and “pteron,” which means “wing.” This…