Risso's Dolphin
What is it:
Risso's dolphin is a large, robust dolphin around 3.5m in length, with a blunt, rounded head, and a slight melon but no beak. It is distinctively greyish in colour (whitening with age), often with numerous white scars on the flanks.
There are two groups of layers included
- Statistical approaches to aid identification of Marine Protected Areas for Risso's dolphin. Based on SNH Commissioned Report No. 594, these include
- Observed adjusted densities of Risso's dolphin; and
- Modelled persistence of above mean density of Risso's dolphin (summers 1994-2012)
- Risso's dolphin effort related sightings displays
- Annual Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Effort Related Sightings Data (2003-2011)
- Annual and Monthly distribution and relative abundance (1979-1997)
- Whale and Dolphin Conservation Effort related sightings data for Risso's dolphin (animals per kilometre) 2010 - 2017
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