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Rangiroa and the Tiputa pass

DDR in a nutshell

A demographic monitoring of the bottlenose dolphin community inhabiting Northern Rangiroa Atoll.

Dolphins in the Tiputa pass.
Dolphins in the Tiputa pass.

Locating the Tiputa pass

Oral tradition

The legend of the Tiputa dolphins

Polynesian tradition tells of the arrival of the first dolphins in the pass. Tahiti Heritage keeps the story.

Read the legend on Tahiti Heritage ↗

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