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Wrightsville Beach, NC dolphins at play!
I took this video clip (I took other, longer videos as well) of a few dolphins swimming in the surf at Wrightsville Beach, NC around 1pm on Friday, January 13th. I was not able to get close enough to the dolphins to exactly identify them, but my best guess is that they were bottlenose dolphins (scientific name is Tursiops truncatus) since that is the most commonly seen species of dolphin in this area. I observed the dolphins for a while, and based off of their behavior of swarming together down the beach at a fairly consistent pace and often bobbing down in the water, I believe they were most likely feeding on a school of fish. Either that, or they were simply socializing together (I saw about four dolphins in this particular pod, and there were a few other pods I spotted at the beach, as well) in the warm sunshine. I learned from the Dolphins World website (www.dolphins-world.com/what-do-bottlenose-dolphins-eat/) that dolphins typically eat small fish, as well as squid, shrimp, crabs, and other small crustaceans/marine animals. I'm curious that if the dolphins were feeding on some lunch when I took this video, were they eating small fish or maybe some shrimp? I think the other types of food they are known to consume are less likely to occur in the part of the ocean the pod was swimming in, but it is possible that their meal consisted of fish or shrimp.
Wrightsville Beach, NC dolphins at play!
I took this video clip (I took other, longer videos as well) of a few dolphins swimming in the surf at Wrightsville Beach, NC around 1pm on Friday, January 13th. I was not able to get close enough to the dolphins to exactly identify them, but my best guess is that they were bottlenose dolphins (scientific name is Tursiops truncatus) since that is the most commonly seen species of dolphin in this area. I observed the dolphins for a while, and based off of their behavior of swarming together down the beach at a fairly consistent pace and often bobbing down in the water, I believe they were most likely feeding on a school of fish. Either that, or they were simply socializing together (I saw about four dolphins in this particular pod, and there were a few other pods I spotted at the beach, as well) in the warm sunshine. I learned from the Dolphins World website (www.dolphins-world.com/what-do-bottlenose-dolphins-eat/) that dolphins typically eat small fish, as well as squid, shrimp, crabs, and other small crustaceans/marine animals. I'm curious that if the dolphins were feeding on some lunch when I took this video, were they eating small fish or maybe some shrimp? I think the other types of food they are known to consume are less likely to occur in the part of the ocean the pod was swimming in, but it is possible that their meal consisted of fish or shrimp.