Tour Scotland short wildlife camera travel video clip, with Scottish fiddle music, of a Dolphin leaping out of the water on visit and trip off the West Coast of the Scottish Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. Bottlenose dolphins live in groups typically of 10 to 30 members, called pods, but group size varies from single individuals up to more than 1,000. Their diets consist mainly of forage fish. Dolphins often work as a team to harvest fish schools, but they also hunt individually. Dolphins search for prey primarily using echolocation, which is similar to sonar. Bottlenose dolphins also use sound for communication, including squeaks and whistles emitted from the blowhole and sounds emitted through body movements, such as leaping from the water and slapping their tails on the water surface. Bottlenose dolphins are perhaps the best-known cetaceans found around Scotland. They can be seen close inshore on both the east and west coasts, but are spotted less often on the north coast and in the Northern Isles. Dolphins tend to be summer visitors to Scotland, and are mainly recorded here between May and October, when food is most abundant. They can sometimes be seen in large schools and are highly acrobatic, often leaping clear of the water. The Moray Firth supports the North Sea’s only known resident population of bottlenose dolphins. This small population of about 195 animals ranges throughout the Moray Firth and down the east coast, at least as far as the Firth of Forth off the coast of Fife. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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