Dolphin Babies

Our baby dolphins have a great life here in the Laguna Madre Bay. I have come to realize that the baby boys are much more fiesty than the baby girls for sure. We are fortunate to get to know these babies and their mothers and watch them grow up. The males play with us much more than the females. We have two new babies so far this year but I have yet to spend time and film them. It is very windy on the water this time of year and my reseaserch vessel is being worked on right now. But there is no hurry and the mother's need their time with the newborns. They will start bringing them to meet me in a few weeks. It will be fun to see the first year mothers that were just little girls when I met them. Some of the young females remind me of the teenage human mothers we see, as if they should still be growing up instead of having a baby! These babies will have fun being raised here in the bay learning from their family and friends what to eat, learn their liquid language, how to use their echo location capabilities, how to stay safe around all the human water activities, how to get along with one another and how to stay healthy. Living up to forty five years in the wild they have a long life of learning. Here is mom playing with her baby.