Dolphin Football - dolphins toss jellyfish sky high!

Cardigan Bay holds Britains largest coastal population of bottlenose dolphins. Every summer, between 150 and 250 dolphins inhabit these waters, forming very significant breeding and feeding grounds. Preliminary evidence is for a population that fluctuates from year to year, for reasons that are presently unclear. In some years, most of the population seems to inhabit the Bay; in others a portion disappear or are replaced by new animals of unknown origin. If sensible management of our bottlenose dolphin population is to be undertaken, we must better understand its dynamics and what makes some areas more important than others. A particular need is to convey the importance of conservation measures that will reduce disturbance, one of the main threats to these mammal populations. Photos are taken to identify individuals as well as video of interesting behaviour, as shown in this clip. To CCW's knowledge this behaviour has not been caught on film in Wales before, although dolphins are known to attack porpoises in this way.

This video footage was captured during licensed Photo-ID operations following strict codes of conduct. Video captured by Mariko Mizuno, Marine Awareness North Wales Wildlife Trust (MANWWT). Video edited by Jonathan Easter, Marine Monitoring Biologist, CCW.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• dolphin
• rhizostoma
• Bottlenose
• football
• Countryside
• Council
• for
• Wales
• marine

[welcomegohome]

haha good to see that dolphins are making good use of the rising jellyfish population

[i0want0a0staff]

i think it just goes to show how popular football is lol

[WalesCoastPath]

This is amazing (though you have to feel sorry for the poor jellyfish!). And just off the Welsh coastline!

[Fetchdafish]

Kinda' seems like they were trying to fling it into the boat.



[saibhy]

dolphins was chucking jelly bombs.

[Elisha2Kings]

looks like FIFA got to the dolphins too.

[seespizzle]

dolphins are so brilliant. Bottle nose dolphins love to swim with boats, I don't see them running away....I believe they actually enjoy the reaction us humans give.

[TheMegacheif]

D49! D13! hut hut HIKE!

[BulgarianInCanada]

Dolphins will save the earth from jelly fish!

[chitilinT]

so the reson is this... dolphins are runing away fomr the boats and they try to escape by tosing jellyfish at the people.. easy right?

[bluebuggO2]

Its like finding Nemo in HD

[junskey]

dolphins are like dogs, except smart