Last Saturday, November 26, four bottlenose dolphins arrived in Lanzarote from Nuremberg, who were "successfully transferred in a plane specially equipped for their transport in the company of a team of veterinarians, biologists and caregivers," according to the company. "Their acclimatization to the new facilities at Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park is being completely satisfactory. Their health is optimal and they are feeding normally," they add.
Rancho Texas points out that these four specimens "belong to the species Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose, bottlenose, tursion or tonina) and specifically to the coastal subspecies, an ecotype that inhabits warm and shallow waters, between three and ten meters deep, which always remains close to the coasts and which, in general, forms small groups of between three and fourteen animals."
The newcomers to Lanzarote belong to the third generation born in captivity in dolphinariums in Germany and the Netherlands: Diego and Darwin were born in 2011 in Duisburg, Noah in 1993 in Nuremberg and Kai in 2010 in Harderwijk.
Finally, they explain from the company that "their transfer to the new dolphinarium in Lanzarote, with the aim of forming a bachelor group, has been decided by the European Endangered Species Program (EEP) which, according to the opinion of its experts and the European Association for Aquatic Mammals (EAAM), decides which actions can improve the quality of life of animals under human care."