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The Wild Atlantic Way (Irish: Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin) is a tourism trail on the west coast, and on parts of the north and south coasts, of Ireland. The 2,500 km [ 1 ] (1,553 mile) driving route passes through nine counties and three provinces , stretching from County Donegal 's Inishowen Peninsula in Ulster to Kinsale , County Cork , in ...
The snubfin dolphins (Orcaella) contain two of the 35 species of oceanic dolphins that make up the Cetacean family of Delphinidae. [5] The phylogenetic status of Orcaella has long been confused. Although the snubfin dolphins share similar external features with the Monodontidae (narwhal), [ 2 ] a genetic study conducted by Arnason and ...
Whale watching in Ireland is a growing tourism activity. The territorial waters of Ireland have been designated a Whale and Dolphin sanctuary since 1991. In total, 25 different cetacean species have been recorded in Irish waters, with large numbers of cetaceans making seasonal passages off the coastline, and a number of resident populations in ...
He became separated from other wild dolphins and lived in very close contact with the people of Dingle on the southwest coast of Ireland. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Wild bottlenose dolphins are estimated to have a median lifespan between 8.3 and 17.4 years, while one bottlenose has been observed to live for at least 67 years. [ 7 ]
Snub fin dolphins have also been observed interacting with Australian humpback dolphins, and one case of a hybrid between the two species was documented using DNA analysis in 2014. [15] Australian snubfin dolphins have been observed to spit jets of water across the surface of the water as a potential feeding strategy. [7]
“IFAW scouts found another group of 25 dolphins swimming but close to shore in Eastham.” Eastham is just south of Wellfleet. Over 100 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were stranded in a muddy ...
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.
An alarming number of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico were found to have traces of fentanyl in their system, shocking scientists with a horrifying twist to the drug epidemic.