Meet the Dolphins

Dolphin F267 Stats Name: F267, also known as Joy Sex: Female Born: 2015Died: 2019 A Dolphin's Life Joy was the second calf of Holly and the grandcalf of Big Shout, who we have been observing since 1992. The dolphins from this lineage tend to

Dolphin FB79 Stats Name: FB79, also known as Vespa Sex: Female Born: 1979 Died: 2022 A Dolphin's Life We first identified Vespa in 1985 and over the years, members of the SDRP observed her more than 1,100 times. We know that Vespa gave birth

Dolphin F199 Stats Name: F199, also known as WAN2 Sex: Female Born: 2002 A Dolphin's Life F199 has been observed more than 450 times since June, 20, 2002. She is the second calf of Wanda, hence her nickname of WAN2. She has given birth

Dolphin 1253 Stats Name: 1253, also known as Joker Sex: Male Born: 2011 A Dolphin's Life Joker has been observed by the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program more than 173 times since he was born in 2011. He is the third calf of Little

Dolphin F125 Stats Name: F125, also known as Little Orphan's Annie Sex: Female Born: 1998 A Dolphin's Life We've observed Little Orphan's Annie more than 800 times since July 1, 1998. She is the grand-calf of Cathy, who was born in 1966. All of

Dolphin F197 Stats Name: F197 Sex: Female Born: 2003 A Dolphin's Life F197 was the second calf of a dolphin nicknamed Murphy Brown and she’s also the grandcalf of FB05 — one of the first dolphins catalogued in Sarasota Bay in the early 1970s.

Dolphin FB28 Stats Name: FB28 Sex: Male Born: 1965 Died: 2015 A Dolphin's Life On the evening of 17 October 2015, the decomposed and shark-scavenged carcass of long-term resident male bottlenose dolphin FB28 was recovered by Mote Marine Laboratory’s Stranding Investigations Program from a

Dolphin FB26 Stats Name: Fb26, also known as Norman Sex: Male Born: 1957Presumed Dead: 2001 A Dolphin's Life Norman was the first dolphin we ever tagged in Sarasota, on Oct. 3, 1970. He was seen 246 times, until July 2001. When we first met