Bottlenose dolphins are abundant and widespread on the west coast of Ireland which contains three discrete populations; a population in the Shannon Estuary, an Inshore population, which occurs all around the Irish coast, and an Offshore population. There have been a number of bottlenose dolphins that have interacted with humans including Fungi, Dony, Sandyand Duggieand of course, Dusty. Although these are treated as ‘friendly’ dolphins, they are wild and very powerful animals. We do not understand why Dusty is here and we cannot predict her behaviour. Please remember she is wild and not a trained animal and you are in her environment.