Dolphin Research Program News Today

A baby dolphin is believed to be dead after a man picked it up on a beach in Florida and held it out of water for a photo for Instagram.

Now reportedly receiving death threats, the 19-year-old responsible for the ill-advised photo-op has yet to be charged - and claims the one-year-old male calf was already dead when he discovered it.

A North Florida man has apologized after posting an Instagram photo of him holding a dolphin several feet out of the water.

Join our dolphin research team on Marco Island and learn about the local dolphins while having fun on our dolphin cruise. The Dolphin Explorer is the only active dolphin research program south of Sarasota, monitoring the social behavior, feeding habits, travel range, survival rate, genealogy, and overall health of more than 120 resident dolphins.

Similar to human moms, bottlenose dolphins use a kind of high-pitched baby talk with their little ones.

Using unoccupied aerial system, or drone, photographs, researchers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are now able to determine the age-structure of free-ranging dolphin groups. This work will aid monitoring the health of dolphin populations and inform timely conservation efforts. The findings of the study that developed and applied this new technique were recently published in Ecology and Evolution.

The Dolphin Research Program has a wide range of fishermen tagging and releasing dolphin they catch, so fish travels can be documented.

It helps local research!