Tursiops aduncus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Blue Mountains National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin in and around Blue Mountains National Park, and the 5 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Garden Route National Park are the two atlas places where the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin is recorded. Its records gather most thickly in Australia, New Caledonia, and Réunion. The atlas holds 4,628 open records of the species from 13 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
Of the 6 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Blue Mountains National Park, the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded