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Common
dolphin (copyright Dr Conor Ryan)
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A
substantial increase in common dolphin numbers off western Scotland
is to be studied by Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust in a new season
of marine research expeditions beginning next month.
The
trust’s encounter rate with common dolphins has more than doubled
over the past 12 years. The findings – recently presented to the
European Cetacean Society – have emerged from the charity’s
unique long-term monitoring of whales, dolphins and porpoises in
