Common Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Common around the coast of Wales & Scotland.

 Also occurs worldwide in warm & temperate seas, such as the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Sea, Irish Sea & rarely into the Baltic Sea.

Common bottlenose dolphins have a grey coloration, a short beak, a single blowhole, and a hooked dorsal fin.

Males are generally larger and heavier than Females.

Like the other Bottlenose Dolphins, they have a short and well-defined snout, which is the source for their common name.

Their necks are more flexible than other dolphins' due to five of their seven vertebrae not being fused together like in other Dolphins.