A bottlenose dolphin broke the world record after swimming 1,275 miles (2,053 km) around the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Daily Mail website. The dolphin, which was named by researchers from the University of St Andrews, was seen Preserve off the coast of Piran, Slovenia in February 2020, and amazingly, was then spotted in the Ligurian Sea, Italy the following year, after completing a gigantic swim to get there..

Dr Thelin Genoff, who led the study, said: ‘Bottlenose dolphins are generally thought to be a relatively resident species, with a strong fidelity to their area of ​​origin, which is mostly true, but our new findings, together with our existing literature review, show This species is more mobile than we previously thought.”

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The dolphin has been named Preserve Because it was spotted on Preseren – It is a Slovenian national holiday dedicated to the poet France PresereThe researchers photographed it in February 2020, and then spotted it again in the area in March of that year. However, it wasn’t until the following year that the researchers realized that Preseren had previously been all the way to the Tyrrhenian Sea..

Dr. Genove happened to attend an online conversation by an Italian colleague, Dr. Francesca Blasi from WHO Filicoid Wildlife Conservationwhen he spotted a fin he recognized in one of the photos dating back to July 2017.After careful examination, the researchers realized that the fin belonged to Preserve.

The dolphin had to travel at least 777 miles (1,251 kilometers) to get there – breaking all existing records in the Mediterranean, and most world records too..

But the surprises didn’t end there. When the researchers presented their findings at an international conference, they were contacted by a team of Delfni del Ponente who studies dolphins in the Ligurian Sea, Italy.Amazingly, the team also filmed the same dolphin, just six months after Biran said goodbye.

This meant that, even on the shortest possible route, Preceren had to travel a minimum of 1,275 miles (2,053 kilometres)..

This is the longest recorded movement in inshore dolphins, and the second longest for the species overall.