Dolphins on the Hunt - Merritt Island FL
Just about every day the dolphins come into the lagoon near my condo to hunt. It's pretty awesome to watch... ENJOY !!!
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Kayaking at Manatee Cove on Indian River Lagoon Merritt Island, Florida
Hi everyone, I’m Beth from Beth’s Best! This is a short video on kayaking at Manatee Cove on Indian River Lagoon in Merritt Island, Florida. Video includes images of the manatee breaching (back, nose, tail), great blue heron and roseate spoonbill.
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Miami Seaquarium Cares
Miami Seaquarium is committed to wildlife conservation and the rescue, rehabilitation and release of distressed marine mammals. This commitment began even before the park first opened its doors. In July of 1955, the park's conservation work began when Maime, a 3 week old, 47 pound manatee was rescued after being injured.
Since that first rescue in 1955, Miami Seaquarium has rescued, rehabilitated and released countless manatees, sea turtles, dolphins and whales. .
Miami Seaquarium is one of only three facilities in the State of Florida with a letter of authorization from the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a Manatee Critical Care Facility. The park's highly trained animal rescue team includes divers, staff veterinarians and animal caretakers who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Manatee and Dolphins while Kayak Fishing Fort Island, Florida
While fishing off the boat ramp in Fort Island, Florida I was lucky enough to be blessed by the company of a friendly manatee and a pod of feeding dolphins. The fishing was slow, I only caught one Redfish and two Sea Trout. None of those catches made it to film. I paddled my kayak around to Shell Island while fishing the entire trip. The weather was nice and ended up warm at about seventy six degrees.
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Dolphins Close UP in the Indian River Florida
Dolphins close up Indian River with Held's Indian River Island Adventures Boat Rentals. Jackson Browne Running on Empty playing in the backround.
Looking for things to do near Cocoa Beach? Kayak with Dolphin in the Indian River Lagoon
If you are looking for things to do near Cocoa Beach, Kayak with Dolphin in the Indian River Lagoon. Today we were able to see an adult and two juvenile dolphin frolic and play out of Manatee Cove.
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Melbourne Beach Dolphins 1
Dolphins we saw at Melbourne Beach here in Florida. They were beautiful and they were pretty close to us. They swam around the pier we were at the entire time we were there. It was a sight to see!
Indian River Lagoon Dolphins 001
July 22, 2015 — Two separate pods of wild bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon, situated alongside US Highway 1 in Central Florida.
The second pod was mostly foraging, whereas the first group seemed to be keenly interested in passing through the area. All clips used in this video were filmed from pierss.
SeaWorld Returns Dolphin To Wild After Months Of Care
In November 2013, after nearly five months of care at SeaWorld Orlando, an adult male dolphin was returned to waters near Melbourne Beach, on Florida's east coast. SeaWorld's Animal Rescue Team, working closely with researchers and dolphin experts from Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute Florida (HSWRI), was able to successfully reintroduce the dolphin to open waters.
On June 13, the dolphin was found to be stranded in shallow waters of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute's research scientists were the first responder to the dolphin and SeaWorld Orlando's Animal Rescue Team quickly rescued and transported the dolphin to the park's marine mammal rehabilitation facility.
At the time of rescue, the dolphin was considered to be in critical condition and appeared thin, weighing only about 350 pounds. He was also suffering from a respiratory disease. Blood and other fluid samples were taken, and medical treatment was administered.
Over the past several months, the team has continued to provide the dolphin with around-the-clock supportive and rehabilitative care, including chest x-rays and medical treatment for his respiratory disease. During his time at the park's marine mammal rehabilitation facility, the team made as little direct contact with the animal as possible to prevent him from becoming accustomed and dependent on humans. This was done purposefully in hopes that he would be reintroduced to the wild.
During his rehab, the dolphin gained 140 pounds and his respiratory disease cleared. After a final health assessment on November 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) authorized today's return.
Prior to the return, a high-frequency radio tag was attached to the dolphin's dorsal fin by HSWRI research scientists. The tag, which has been designed to fall off in two to three months, will allow the team to monitor his movement, giving insight to his feeding and migratory patterns, ensuring he has acclimated well. The dolphin's dorsal also was marked with R08, which will help in future identification once the tag has fallen off.
The goal of the SeaWorld Rescue and Rehabilitation Program is to always return rescued animals back into their natural environment, but there are certain times when injuries may be too severe or the animal may have been rescued too young to be successfully returned. SeaWorld Orlando works closely with government agencies, including Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and NOAA, to determine when, and if, rescued animals can be returned.
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Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hooved mammals than today’s sea creatures
CT scan of 30-million year old fossil indicates echolocation evolved more than once.
Vanderbilt University paleontologists are looking into the evolutionary origins of the whistles and squeaks that dolphins and porpoises make – part of the rare echolocation ability that allows them to effectively navigate their dark environment.
The team, one of the first in the world to examine the ability’s origins, used a small CT scanner to look inside a 30-million-year-old ear bone fossil from a specimen resembling Olympicetus avitus. This member of the toothed whale family, in a branch that died out before modern dolphins and porpoises appeared, lived in what is now the state of Washington. The CT scan revealed cochlear coiling with more turns than in animals with echolocation, indicating hearing more similar to the cloven-hooved, terrestrial mammals dolphins came from than the sleek sea creatures they are today.
“The simple theory is that there was one origin for echolocation in dolphins, and we’d find it in their 30-million-year-old ancestor,” said Rachel A. Racicot, who completed the research as a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt. “Now, we believe it didn’t evolve just once in this lineage, but more than once and in more than one lineage – at least in xenorophids, which are extinct, and somewhere along the line to the Odontoceti crown group that still survives.”
Because echolocation is useful for navigating dark waters, natural selection likely came into play with its development in the branch that survived, she said. The findings appear today in The Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Racicot will join Vanderbilt’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Department after spending a year working in Germany. Her co-author, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Simon A.F. Darroch, installed the CT scanner, which works the same way as those used in medicine and allows for internal examination of fossils without damaging them.
Learning echolocation’s origins also can help preserve modern creatures that use it, Darroch said, by understanding how they’re perceiving sound from ship engines, oil drills and other machinery. Confusion over those sounds may be causing mass stranding events, and solving the mystery could lead to methods of discouraging species such as the vaquita, a small porpoise on the brink of extinction in the Gulf of California, away from boats and nets.
“If we develop correlates for the shapes of the inner ear and how that corresponds to hearing frequencies, we can extrapolate those methods without capturing animals and bombarding them with sounds that don’t work,” Darroch said.
First, according to Racicot and Darroch, paleontologists will have to find and scan a much larger sampling of all the toothed whale group’s ancestors and those of rare modern species.
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Crazy Dolphin
While on some skiffs in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (between Canada and the US) we encountered Dolph. We initially approached with caution, worried that there was something wrong with the dolphin, but we were eventually won over by what appeared to be endless playfulness. Luckily it didn't jump in our boats!
Note: Even though the video is edited, there are no repeated clips...in other words, Dolph really did swim with us, leaping over and over for at least 45 minutes!
Kayaking with Manatee and Dolphin in South-West Florida! Adventureskayaking.com
(06/01/2013) Heres another great guided tour with Adventureskayaking.com in Estero Bay near Lovers Key State Park. Three manatee in the beginning, the small one is only about 2-3 months old. Lots of dolphin courting one another for a long time. (shortened for viewing) The dolphin really gave us a show today!
Crystal River, Florida Dolphins
We went to Crystal River to see to swim with manatees and were also treated with dolphins swimming around our boat. We even got to see them eat right in front of the boat.
Dolphins following our boat at Melbourne, Florida.
Dolphins following our boat at Melbourne, Florida.
Kayaking in Florida -- Manatee Spotting
Over spring break, my cousin and I decided to go kayaking. We didn't think we were going to see anything, we just did it for fun. We were lost most of the time, but we still had a great time.
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Manatee Close Encounter at Crystal River
A curious manatee glides by underneath our paddle boards in the waters of Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River, Florida.
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Indian River Inlet dolphins
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Manatee in Canal next to Biscayne national park in Homestea
The kids and I stopped right outside the entrance to the park, and we saw in the canal this manatee.