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Do dolphins move around a lot?

Mar 16, 2011 No comments By Blair Irvine

 

The area where a dolphin feeds, breeds, socializes, and travels is called its home range. In Sarasota the home range is about 35 miles along the coast. A few local dolphins move much farther from time to time. Males tend to have larger ranges than females. In other areas, bottlenose dolphins have a winter and a summer home range. Populations along the U.S. Atlantic seaboard migrate north in the spring and south in the fall.

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I manage the SDRP website, serve as President of the Dolphin Biology Research Institute, and otherwise volunteer as needed. I started the SDRP in 1970 with then High School student Randy Wells, and I led the research through the 70’s. Randy took over in the early 80s when I changed careers. Since then, my non-dolphin interests mostly have been in the area of human behavioral health. With NIH support, much of my research has involved Internet interventions and training programs. My graduate degrees are in Zoology (MS), Exercise Physiology (MAPE), and Health Education (PhD).
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