Unique Wonders of the Dolphins in the Gulf of Corinth - `

Amazing things happen in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece! The mixed-species society of its dolphins is world-wide unique in many ways. Since 1995 the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute has been conducting surveys to study these dolphins and made fantastic discoveries. The Gulf of Corinth is the only place in the world, where striped dolphins live in a semi-enclosed gulf, isolated from larger seas or oceans! Together with common dolphins and Risso's dolphins, they form a permanent mixed-species dolphin society. Such a permanent symbiosis has never been observed anywhere else in the world. Given the genetic distances among the three species, it is like if humans lived in a mixed-species society with chimpanzees and gorillas! During a recent survey in 2023 new amazing observations were made: 1) We re-sighted the same individual of Risso's dolphin 26 years after its first observation in 1997, 2) We recorded a unique striped dolphin with thumbs on both its pectoral fins, 3) A femal