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Sunday 9 September 2018

Finding one of the world's rarest dolphins

Credit: Projeto Toninhas / UNIVILLE
Another day and on the trail of another new species - This is Sao Francisco City in Brazil: very pretty and quite old and the entrance to Babitonga Bay.
Hundreds of cormorants roosting like black weird fruit - more of them later.



One of many small islands in the Bay

A tiny distant fin - a sighting of one of the 50 or go genetically -distinct frnaciscana
dolphins that live in the Bay
Two individuals - possibly a mother and calf

A passing tourist boat - seemingly oblivious to the dolphins

A low flying line of cormorants stretching across the bay.
A dolphin of a different kind!
Sotalia



Dr Marta Cramer - leading authority on the frnaciscana and yours truly

Our boat

A Brazilian lap wing


Back to port
Two leading ladies of Brazilian dolphin research - left, Dra Camila Domit and right, Dra Marta Cremer
(also my host on this wonder boat trip and the kind supplier of the excellent franciscana images below and at the top of the blog, which were taken by her team during our trip)
Credit Projeto Toninhas / UNIVILLE

Credit: Projeto Toninhas / UNIVILLE


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