While attacks by bottlenose dolphins on other bottlenoses and porpoises – dolphin-like marine mammals that belong to the same superfamily as dolphins – had been spotted in the bay before, this was the ...

A common dolphin juvenile has been killed by four bottlenose dolphins in an attack that could become more common as the ...

Bottlenose dolphins in the bay — which number around 250 individuals — also regularly kill harbour porpoises ... noting that their proficiency in hunting allows them time for “play and ...

It is very common for bottlenose dolphins to attack porpoises but not a common dolphin ... a lot of free time because they are so good at hunting." He said the attacks are probably down to ...