One of the 17 dolphins on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Delphinidae
Atlantic Humpback Dolphin
Sousa teuszii
Critically Endangered
At extremely high risk of imminent extinction in the wild.
The Atlantic humpback dolphin is one of the most threatened cetaceans in the world. It lives hard against the West African coast, almost always less than three kilometres from land and in water under twenty metres deep, which exposes it directly to artisanal fishing nets. It owes its name to an elongated hump on the back on which a small dorsal fin sits. Its subpopulations are highly fragmented and some are already down to a few dozen animals.
Weight
100 kg – 150 kg
Size
2 m – 2.5 m
Life expectancy
40 years
