Photos Courtesy of Hong Kong Dolphinwatch
Diet fish
Birth 1 meter; 25 kg
Socialization associates with botlenoseand long-snoued spinner dolphins; difficult to approach; avoid boats
How they look robust body, elongated hump on back, small fin sits on hump, long, slender beak, flukes raised on diving
Size 2 to 2.8 meters; 150 to 200 kg
Where they live southeastern Asia, eastern Africa;
many off the coast of Hong Kong
How many dolphins in a pod group size, 1-25
Threats people
Latin Names Sausa chinensis
Interesting facts A Humpback Dolphin's fatty hump begins to grow as it gets older. Dolphins living west of Indonesia have very distinguishable humps; dolphins in the east have no humps. They sometimes lie on their sides and wave their flippers.
 

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 Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin  Hector's Dolphin
 Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin  Heaviside's Dolphin
 Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin  Black Dolphin
 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin  Hourglass Dolphin
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