An unusual animal was found during the 113th voyage of the Professor Vodyanitsky research expedition.
The bottlenose dolphin, despite its young age (animalwas seen in a stable pair with a larger bottlenose dolphin, presumably his mother) there are already damages - deep scars on the caudal peduncle, characteristic of being hit by a propeller.
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The condition of the albino dolphin is satisfactory. The animal is now in the Tarkhankutsky Nature Reserve, but researchers fear that it may migrate elsewhere.
Photo: Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas RAS
Note that during the expedition of SevastopolInstitute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialists carried out a full census of cetacean populations in the Azov and Black Seas. Of the three species of cetaceans that live in the Black Sea (white cetaceans, Azov dolphins and bottlenose dolphins), the most common were white cetaceans.
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