Mandurah's Dolphin Blog: Name the Baby Dolphin Competition

Mandurah's Dolphin Blog

Bouvard Cruises is happy to introduce you to the official "Mandurah's Dolphin Blog" where we will share with you all of the sightings and encounters we have on our cruises with Mandurah's beautiful wild dolphins. You will find photo's, movies and information on the many dolphin encounters we have on our cruises in and around Mandurah and hope that this information helps raise awareness of Mandurah's wild dolphins. You too can see Mandurah's dolphins, they live just 1 hour south of Perth in Western Australia.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Name the Baby Dolphin Competition

The votes were close between Tide and Alluka...

Alluka was the winner with 158 votes compared to 116 votes for Tide.
Congratulations to Shanae Miller who suggested the name Alluka you are the winner of the Mandurah Stay & Play Package.
There have been a number of new dolphin calves recently so I'm sure one of the Bouvard Cruises crew will name another calf Tide.

Alluka was born on the 3rd of March and first sighted by Ron & Sarah onboard the "SuperCat". Alluka is the calf of a resident unnamed Mandurah Dolphin that has a bend in her dorsal fin. She is often called "Bendy Wendy". Perhaps we will have to call her Wendy from now on as we are frequently seeing her and Alluka playing in the wake of our boats.

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About Mandurah's Dolphins

Mandurah has a healthy population of Bottle Nose Dolphins (tusiops truncatus) that is estimated to number up to 75 individuals, depending on the time of year. The number increases around mating times when males come in and join the pods. The pods of dolphins average around 10-15 and have sometimes been seen to be as large as 25 down to solitary dolphins or smaller family groups of 3-4.

Their average length is about 3 metres, with calves being about 1 metre long at birth. We normally see baby dolphins appear between December and April. Mandurah's wild dolphins are medium grey in colour with light flanks and pale bellies. They can live up to 30 years and can swim in short bursts up to 40km/h and they love to play in our ferries bow waves and wash. As a matter of fact dolphins are the only other mammals apart from humans that continue to play well into their adult life. And Mandurah's wild dolphins are very playful!

Thanks to Sally Kirby for some of this information.