It was one Sunday on a beach in Castell de Ferro beach when bathers saw a dolphin approaching the shore so they started filming it with their mobiles.

It ends up beaching itself so the onlookers decided that it needed help to refloat itself, so taking care they got it back into shallow water and the dolphin swam off

The footage went viral and the Aula del Mar belonging to the University of Granada saw the footage and identified it as a striped dolphin, which is included in Andalucía’s list of threatened species.

“It is not normal for them to swim close to the shore, and they usually travel in groups. It is very probable that it has some problem, but at a glance it would be difficult to figure out,” said one of their number.

Although it can be confused with the common dolphin at first glance, it is easy to identify by its characteristic colouring. Its back is dark (brownish-black or bluish-grey), its flanks are gey, and its belly is white or pinkish. The beak and back are darker than the belly.

Adult males reach up to 2.5 metres in length and 150 kg in weight. They prefer deep waters and almost never come within 200 metres of the coast, except where the seabed shelving is steep.

They mostly live in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, as well as the Mediterranean, where they keep closer to the North African and Spanish coastline rather than transit through the centre.

(News: Castell de Ferro, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Beached Dolphin Helped Back, Striped Dolphin, Deep Water, Aula del Mar, Universidad de Granada

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