The GVI Marine team is happy to announce that TWENDE dolphin is a mom!
The mother – Twende ("let's go" in Kiswahili)
Twende is the number 004 of our catalogue and she is regularly seen by the research team socializing and feeding in the Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park. She has never been seen next to a calf since the research started in 2006 so we believed Twende was a male dolphin.
004 Twende_catalogue photo
Pictures taken last week, on the 27th January 2010, show Twende next to a new calf! The two never separated during our 30 minute sighting, and have shown a lot of interaction such as rubbing and breast feeding.
Twende and her baby
For all of you ex GVI staff (this one is for you Sergi!) or volunteers that remember seeing Twende, current or future GVI volunteers, and all other dolphin lovers, we wanted to share this baby smile with you! Enjoy the pictures!
GVI Marine Team *
Donations made here are
Apr 29th Antonio C USD 55.00
2 Comments
Great photos, its not often you see pictures of baby dolphins like that. I hope he/she can live a long natural life without human interference, thanks for the update!
Hi Rebecca,
It is a great photo – glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully the research we arew doing in collaboration with KWS can be used to establish a code of conduct that will protect the population to the best of our ability.
Thanks for your comments, keep them coming!
Matt
GVI Kenya
One Trackback
Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by PrimateNews: Twende is a Mother! http://bit.ly/cFrq8J #nature #wildlife…