LivnOcean Research, Inc. — doing business as Cape Fear Dolphin Research — is a nonprofit dedicated to long-term study and stewardship of cetaceans in coastal North Carolina.
Bottlenose & Atlantic spotted dolphins, and humpback whales.
Photo-identification and behavioral surveys from the Cape Fear River to the open Atlantic.
Community-rooted conservation across Brunswick and New Hanover Counties.
Our Focal Species
Tursiops truncatus & Tursiops erebennus
Two species frequent our waters: Tursiops erebennus, the smaller coastal bottlenose dolphin found close to shore and in the Cape Fear River mouth, and Tursiops truncatus, the larger, more ocean-going offshore form.
Stenella frontalis
Offshore visitors with distinctive mottled patterns that develop with age.
Megaptera novaeangliae
Migratory giants documented seasonally along the Brunswick and New Hanover coastlines.
Photos by Dr. Kim Jones.
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