At first glimpse it may not look like much but when cetaceans excrete, it acts as a fertilizer for phytoplankton. These curtains of nutrients that are left behind encourage a significant increase in the phytoplankton community, the base of the marine food web and main oxygen producers on our planet…
by Daniel Jardim
Sightings of the day
Stenella
13:30 Short-beaked common dolphins; Bottlenose dolphins
16:00 Short-beaked common dolphins; Bottlenose dolphins