Whale song Whale! Whale!! Whale? In Bangladesh? No way, no one can imagine the existence of whales in Bangladesh! The Bay of Bengal is a small corridor of the mighty Indian Ocean with a unique geographical location where it is possible to find whales and dolphins. For over seven years now, the Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project (BCDP) of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has conducted research in this area and recorded at least four species of dolphins and two species of whales. Researchers from BCDP have also estimated the population of Irrawaddy dolphin in the
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coastal waters of Bangladesh to be around 5800. This is the largest population of this threatened coastal dolphin species in the whole world. Specific sightings include large groups of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus), Pantropical Spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuate), Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris), Rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis), Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera edeni) and False Killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens).