New Study: Dolphins have names for each other too

Two long-term resident mothers of the Sarasota Bay

bottlenose dolphin community flank their new calves.

Photo by Katherine McHugh, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, taken under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit No. 15543.

Photo by Sunnie Hart, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, taken under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit No. 15543.

From left to right, 62-yr-old grandmother FB15, her female

associate 59-yr-old F153, her newborn grand-calf 1231, and her 14-yr-old daughter and mother of the newborn, F123.

Photo by Jason Allen, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, taken under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit No. 15543.

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