Eva Schotanus does research on the common dolphin, before commencing with the dissection.
Eva Schotanus does research on the common dolphin, before commencing with the dissection. A dead common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) was found along the coast of Texel on Tuesday afternoon. An animal keeper from nature museum Ecomare found the animal, after which it was transported to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for further investigation. This common dolphin is a young adult male weighing 47 kilograms and 1.70 metres long. It is not the striped dolphin observed off the coast of Hoek van Holland last weekend. Common dolphins prefer deep, tropical waters and are mostly found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean oceans. They usually live in groups of 10 to 500, yet there are times when they stray from a large group and temporarily live solitary.
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