Seven bottlenose dolphins have travelled a record-breaking distance from Scotland's east coast to Ireland. The mammals identified in the Moray Firth were tracked to islands on the west coast of Scotland and three of those as far afield as Cork and Galway. The distance of more than 1,300km is a new point-to-point distance record for the species. One of the dolphins, six of which are female, has also been matched with an animal seen regularly in the mid-1990s from the coast of Cornwall. Photographs of individual dolphins' dorsal fins enabled the scientists from the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust and Earthwatch to identify the animals. They said the project would have a profound impact on how conservation measures are designed in the future.
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