Mandurah's newest baby dolphin!

Saturday 20th February
Ron & Sarah onboard the "SuperCat" had an exciting day! Ron sighted a pod of 5 dolphins and headed over to them near the new bridge noticing that in the pod was a new born dolphin calve.
The calve was about 1 metre in length and thought to be less than 2 weeks old.
Ron has been given the job of naming the calve and were all waiting to see what name he comes up with.
Hopefully the new calve has survived it's first few weeks as a new born and we see it swimming around again shortly.

Female bottlenose dolphins generally give birth between March & September. The gestation period is 12 months and they are generally born about 70-130cm in length weighing 15-30kg.
Calves are born tail first, the mother then quickly pushes the calve to the surface so it doesn't drown. The calve suckles it's mothers milk for up to 18 months and starts eating fish at about 6 months.