These are posts about individual dolphins living in our study area of Sarasota Bay, Florida.
Dolphin F213 Stats Name: F213, also known as Maddie Sex: Female Age: Born 2007 A Dolphin's Life F213 was born in 2007 to FB55, who is part of a life-long and well-known female lineage in Sarasota Bay. (FB55 is the third calf
Dolphin F259 Stats Name: F259 Sex: Female Age: Born 2013 A Dolphin's Life F259 was born in 2013 to a dolphin named Saida Beth, FB33. We’re excited to report that she’s a first-time mom this year (2022), having given birth to
Dolphin F155 Stats Name: F155 Sex: Female Age: Born 1990 A Dolphin's Life Murphy Brown was born in 1990 to FB05, one of the earliest dolphins we documented (back in 1971, just a year after our research program began). She is
Dolphin F217 Stats Name: F217 Sex: Female Age: Born 2007 A Dolphin's Life We’ve known F217 since she was born in 2007 to a dolphin we call Big Shout (F141). We’ve observed F217 more than 280 times since her birth. F217 became
Dolphin F207 Stats Name: F207, aka Swiss Cheese Sex: Female Age: Born 2005 A Dolphin's Life Swiss Cheese is the calf of F175 and grand-calf of FB75 (also known as Pup). We’ve observed her more than 600 times since her birth
Dolphin F222 Stats Name: F158 Sex: Male Age: Born 1985 A Dolphin's Life We’ve observed Grasshopper 93 times since 1989. He was the first observed calf of Pecan Sandie (the first Florida dolphin tagged with a satellite-linked transmitter in 1990). Pecan
Dolphin F222 Stats Name: F222 Sex: Male Age: Born 1999 A Dolphin's Life F222 is the second calf of Claire (also known as F131), the grand-calf of Genie (FB59) and great-grand-calf of Granny (FB19). (Learn more about this maternal lineage here.)
Dolphin F233 Stats Name: F233 Sex: Female Age: Born 2010 A Dolphin's Life We’ve observed F233 more than 330 times since her birth in May 2010. She gave birth to her own first calf in 2019. We had just one sighting of F233 and
Dolphin F220 Stats Name: F220, also known as Stormy Sex: Male Age: Born 1999 A Dolphin's Life We've observed Stormy more than 600 times since his birth in 1999. He's the fourth calf of FB07, also known as Lightning. In our research, we’ve found
Dolphin C250 Stats Name: C250 Sex: Male Age: Born 2016 A Dolphin's Life C250 is the 10th calf of FB25 and we’ve observed him more than 120 times since his birth in 2016. We usually see him between the north Siesta Key Bridge and
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