These are posts about individual dolphins living in our study area of Sarasota Bay, Florida.
Dolphin FB2 Stats Name: FB2 Sex: Male Born: 1991 A Dolphin's Life Interestingly, FB2 was still a young dolphin hanging out with his mom during a health assessment many years ago when we noted during an ultrasound that his mother Genie was pregnant with
Dolphin F178 Stats Name: F178, also known as Pi Sex: Male Born: 1995 A Dolphin's Life Pi is an adult male resident of the Sarasota population, known since birth. His fin is easily recognizable by its nicks and notches. Unfortunately some of those notches
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, also known as Mabel Sex: Female Born: 2003 A Dolphin's Life Mabel 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
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
