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Social Organisation, Behaviour & Life History

Do the porpoises live in groups?

  • Occur in small groups, generally of 3 animals or less
  • Slightly larger groups in spring and smaller groups in autumn
  • Aggregations of up to 20 porpoises but these are always very loose groupings
Graph: Frequency of Group Size of Portpoise
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image Last Revision Date : 08 June 2006 image