Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin Name: Tursiops truncatusSize: Up to thirteen feet longHabitat: The Gulf Coast About 51,000 bottlenose dolphins—the most common species off the Texas coast—are frolicking in the northern Gulf as you read this. Occasionally, though, one of them ends up on land. The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, based in Galveston, responds to an average of 134 strandings per year. Executive director Heidi Whitehead says that after hurricanes, she and her colleagues have even rescued dolphins from fields and ditches as far as seventeen miles inland. So before you head to the beach (or your favorite ditch), learn what to do if you come across one. If I find a stranded dolphin, should I…
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