Story: Dolphins

More links and websites

• Behaviour and ecology

  On the website of the University of Otago’s Marine Mammals Research Group, this section features research into bottlenose dolphins and other marine mammals.

• Dolphins

  This page on the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s site gives information on dolphins found in New Zealand waters.

• Marine Mammal Center: whales, dolphins and porpoises

  Every species of dolphin is presented on this comprehensive site.

• WWF – New Zealand

  This site has information on New Zealand wildlife, particularly Hector’s and Māui’s dolphins.

More suggestions and sources

• Alpers, Antony. Dolphins. London: John Murray, 1963.
• Baker, Alan. Whales and dolphins of New Zealand and Australia. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990.
• Dawson, Stephen, and Elisabeth Slooten. Down-under dolphins: the story of Hector’s dolphin. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1996.
• Doak, Wade. Friends in the sea: solo dolphins in New Zealand and Australia. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995.
• Lee-Johnson, Eric, and Elizabeth Lee-Johnson. Opo: the Hokianga dolphin. Auckland: David Ling, 1994.