How Far Do the Dolphins of Naples and Marco Island Travel ? Insights on their Ranging Patterns From The Dolphin Study Database When we founded the 10,000 Island study way back in 2006, one of the things I wanted to determine was the range of the dolphins that lived around Marco Island and [...]
The Importance of Being Skipper With the recent birth of her calf, Skipper's 2014 rescue has met all the criteria of a successful intervention A small dolphin breaks the surface and comes into view followed immediately by its mother. Then they descend and, as if on cue, a second mother and calf [...]
I Have Beheld the Future Honest Eco in Key West Sets the Standard for ethical Ecotours When people view and treat the environment as being as precious as their family, children and friends, then we will find a healthy planet that can sustain all its inhabitants for future generations. from the Honest Eco [...]
A local bottlenose dolphin mother and her daughter approach the birthing season together This is Sydney and Jing Jing, two dolphins that have lived their entire lives in the waters of Naples, Marco Island and Goodland. Both adult females unencumbered by calves, they have spent the past year with each other. Now birthing [...]
How Many Dolphins Live Around Marco Island? The results of 150 new boat-based surveys conducted by our partner Dolphin Research Tours between January and November 2021 have clarified the number of dolphins that live around Marco Island and provided fascinating insights into how they are distributed. It is about 25 miles from [...]
Some Crazy Looking Dolphins Live around Marco Island Since we began our photo-identification study of the dolphins that live around Marco Island, Florida I have catalogued the dorsal fin profiles of over 500 different bottlenose dolphins. Many of them look rather like the generic idea of a Dolphin fin... But some of [...]
Say you see a dolphin. And something just doesn’t seem right. It is swimming oddly. You take a photo, zoom in on the image and the reason becomes clear. There is a fishing leader wrapped tightly around the tail of the animal and the other end of the line is a tangle [...]
Finally! This website has been a long time in arriving.It was a cool morning way back in January of 2006 that Chris Desmond and I recorded our first dolphin sighting after launching The 10,000 Island Dolphin Project. We were learning as we went along.Chris had conceived the idea of an eco-tour that would [...]
An introduction to the habitats and the state of the research in The dolphin Study's Areas One to Four.
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