Are they enjoying the water, or struggling with the pollution? (Image: Joan Gonzalvo/Tethys Research Institute)
I HAD never given much thought to how dolphins copulate, much less seen them doing it. But in a frenzied, water-churning few minutes in the Amvrakikos gulf, western Greece, I witnessed a cetacean orgy. We had already spotted an incredibly cute newborn dolphin and several calves, so I assumed that the dolphin population here was thriving. As I was to find out, that doesn’t mean it will stay that way.
I was helping survey dolphins with Joan Gonzalvo of the based…
