What are the Types of Wild Dolphins in Mauritius?
The two types of Dolphins that visit the west coast of Mauritius are Bottlenose and Spinner dolphins during a dolphin swimming excursion.
Bottlenose Dolphins are gray in color and have an elongated snout, or rostrum, which gives the animal its common name. They live in groups called pods that typically number about 15 dolphins, but group size varies from solitary bottlenose dolphins up to groups of over 100 or even occasionally over 1000 animals. Their diet consists mainly of small fish. Dolphin groups often work as a team to harvest schools of fish, but they also hunt individually.
Mauritius Bottlenose Dolphin
Spinner dolphins are dark gray, with darker patches in the tail stock, back and throat. Usually it has creamy-white patch on the belly though this varies considerably. The beak is distinctively long and thin, with a dark tip. Spinners congregate in groups that vary from just a few dolphins to great schools numbering in the thousands. They are consistently acrobatic and keen bow-riders. Individuals have been spotted completing at least 14 spinning jumps in quick succession.
