An estuarine bottlenose dolphin hunts for fish in a shallow marsh creek in the Cape Romain estuary near Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Estuary dolphins are a sub-species of the larger Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and are tiny in comparison having adapted to the shallow waterways and tidal changes in the marsh estuary.

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Size: 4960px × 3307px
Location: Cape Romain National Wildlife Refugee, Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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