Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in South Pacific Ocean

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Jun 25, 2026 OBIS-SEAMAP

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Description

Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 37 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in South Pacific Ocean. Version 1.4.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/ebdec3c3.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2e68a4e9-0910-4c4a-8f24-04f358b652a9.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; PhotoID; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1694 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1694/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1694/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
  • Originator
  • Primary contact
Happywhale.com
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
Ted Cheeseman
  • Originator
Happywhale.com

Geographic Coverage

Data extent

Bounding Coordinates South West [-45.786, -91.64], North East [0.26, 0.26]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2004-06-11 / 2025-10-03

Project Data

No Description available

Title Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in South Pacific Ocean
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Ted Cheeseman
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1694
Collection Identifier zd_1694
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Southerland, K., and T. Cheeseman. 2026. Happywhale encounter. https://happywhale.com/

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 14 contributors in alphabetic order: Cassandra Smith; Daniel Townend; Kathy; Kelly M Coursey Gray; Lexi Rossetti; Marilia Olio; Matthew Clarke; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Paul Schofield; Petra Glardon; Rosie Jeffrey; Simon Lucas; Ted Cheeseman; Whale Watching Chile

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers 10.82144/ebdec3c3
2e68a4e9-0910-4c4a-8f24-04f358b652a9
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1694
ca49c384-f0d2-4315-a894-4d54c137efd5
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1694