A solitary but playful dolphin has been sighted along the British coast, making friends with lifeboat crews and sailors.

The dolphin, photographed cavorting with Penlee lifeboat crews off the coast of Cornwall, is believed to the same one that frolicked among the boats earlier this month in Plymouth Sound, the Times of London reported.

Peter Bloom, a dolphin expert at Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire, said that the dolphin’s behavior, while rare, is not unheard of. Dolphins usually travel in large groups, but this one may have been rejected and is traveling solo.

“He was very friendly, he came right up against the boat and let us stroke him," said Patrick Harvey, deputy coxswain at Penlee lifeboat station. "He was rolling over so we could rub his belly." // Copyright 2007 by United Press International


Publication date: 21 September 2007   

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