{"id":13569,"date":"2011-04-09T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13569"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:20:21","slug":"spinner-dolphins-stenella-longirostris-in-saint-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13569","title":{"rendered":"Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei) in Saint Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Saint Lucia, I took a boat trip to see whales and dolphins in the waters around the island .\u00a0 I saw no whales, but a very large pod of Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>) followed the boat and played in the wake .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It was a\u00c2\u00a0magnificent sight to see the dolphins leap out of the water as they swam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13570\" title=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 1\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 1\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>) &#8211; 1<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 1 (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-2R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13577\" title=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 2\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-2R.jpg\" alt=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 2\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-2R.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-2R-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-2R-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>) &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 2 (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13572\" title=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 3\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-3.jpg\" alt=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 3\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-3.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>) &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 3 (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13573\" title=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 4\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-4.jpg\" alt=\"Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) - 4\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-4.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Spinner-Dolphins-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>) &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (<em>Lagenodelphis hosei<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 4 (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Saint Lucia, I took a boat trip to see whales and dolphins in the waters around the island .\u00a0 I saw no whales, but a very large pod of Fraser&#8217;s dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei) followed the boat and played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-caribbean-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3wR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13575,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions\/13575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}