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Archive for 22. August 2006

Loly

22. August 2006

19. August 2006 17.15h
LOLY
Regularly we meet LOLY, a female bottlenose dolphin. For 2 years her dorsal fin seems to have been infected with a fungus which has grown slowly but which seems to be stable at the moment. We know that she is a female because we have observed her in the past together with a calf. After a while the young one had the same infection as Loly. Unfortunately we don’t know anything about its destiny because we haven’t seen it in the Strait of Gibraltar for a long time.

-KH-

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Loly on the 19th of August 2006 (picture: K. Heyer)