Meet SAM bdt damaged pec, whhaaaaattttt??????
By now you must be thinking that's a silly name! It mumbo jumbo, non sensical and - just how many SAMS can you have?!
SAM stands for a sub-adult male, BDT represents bottlenose-dolphin-top and damaged pec indicates there is an identifying feature that can be used. If we can run a search; for example damaged pec in our archive, all video and images archived as damaged pec will come up to reference.
While doing this a couple of days ago; observations of Dalila and a male juvenile WITH a damaged pec AND a top notch came up. Matching these images with the more recent one, we were able to confirm that this SAM is Dalila's son.
This spritely young male, now estimated to be 4 years old developed both pec and dorsal notches while still at mums side. Now he is out hanging with same aged males and females in-between certain get together behaviours.
As per tradition, we tend to try and name the babes with the first letter of mums name. So in this case we are looking for a cool name, that starts with a D and indicates a male!
Leave your suggestions in the comments!
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