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BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS
SEA WATCH FOUNDATION | CEREDIGION | WALES
Katrin Lohegral, monitoring officer for The Sea Watch Foundation explains why the semi-resident bottlenose dolphins of Cardigan bay are so unique to our British shores.
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Over the past few years we have seen an abundance of unfamiliar creatures appearing in our British waters.
From the walrus that took up residency on the coast of Pembrokeshire to the blue sharks spotted in Falmouth, we are getting used to bigger, more unusual creatures appearing on our shoreline, but it is the bottlenose dolphin population in West Wales that provides us with access to better understand larger marine mammals in abundance.
With 250 semi-resident animals spread around Cardigan Bay, this is the location of Europe’s largest population of bottlenose dolphins...
INTERVIEW: KATRIN LOHRENGEL | THE SEAWATCH FOUNDATION
WORDS: FAITH MILLWARD
IMAGES: COURTESY OF THE SEWATCH FOUNDATION
