Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin

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This is an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin from the coastal waters of Oman, a country on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other partners have examined how currents, temperature differences, and other environmental factors influence populations of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in the western Indian Ocean. They used remote-sensing data from satellites to inform genetic comparisons of different dolphin populations.

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Graeme Hornby.

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