Short-beaked common dolphin

Description:

Group of Short-beaked common dolphins followed our boat for a while, there was a baby one with his mother. "The short-beaked common dolphin is a medium sized dolphin, smaller than the more widely-known bottlenose dolphin. Males are generally longer and heavier. The color pattern on the body is unusual. The back is dark and the belly is white, while on each side is an hourglass pattern colored light grey, yellow or gold in front and dirty grey in back. It has a long, thin rostrum with 50–60 small, sharp, interlocking teeth on each side " Wikipedia

Habitat:

"Short-beaked common dolphins appear to have a preference for upwelling-modified waters, areas with steep sea floor relief, and extensive shelf areas, but they are widespread in warm temperate and tropical waters (Evans 1994). In the eastern tropical Pacific, they prefer equatorial and subtropical waters with a shallow thermocline, relatively large seasonal changes in surface temperature, and seasonal upwelling (Reilly 1990; Fiedler and Reilly 1994). " http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6336/...

Notes:

Found somewhere between Sines and Cabo de São Vicente. "Golfinho-comum" ou "Toninha"