With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University, and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. One of the superlatives that you can say about the bottlenose is that it is a superior opportunist. Because it is middle of the road in terms of body size and certain types of social behaviors, and so on, it can take advantage of a lot of different habitats and a lot of different situations and thrive. And even in captivity, Bottlenose Dolphin thrive.
Many species are very difficult to keep in captivity.
The bottlenose has made the adjustment pretty well and breeds well in captivity and so on. That's one of the reasons we know so much about it. With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University, and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. At present, there is little reason to think of Florida's Bottlenose Dolphin as an endangered species.