‘Superpod’ of More Than 2,000 Dolphins Frolic off California Coast – (WATCH)

A popular whale watching service recently spotted a superpod of perhaps more than 2,000 dolphins in the water beyond Monterey Bay.

Consisting of Northern right whale dolphins and Pacific white-sided dolphins, as well as a large number of calves, the sight left the boat’s crew entranced, and they quickly sent up a drone to capture the phenomenon from the sky.

“Superpods like this are rare, especially of Northern right whale dolphins,” Monterey Bay Whale Watch, the tour operator that recorded the superpod, wrote on Facebook.

Along with taking people out to spot whales, Evan Brodsky, the boat’s captain, will also go on marine research trips. It was on one such trip in 2023 that Brodsky recorded another superpod of long-beaked common dolphins, though he referred to it as a megapod at the time.

“When they jump, they look like flying eyebrows,” Brodsky told AP, referring to the Northern right whale dolphin’s lack of a dorsal fin. “We were so excited, it was hard to hold in our emotions. We had the biggest grins from ear to ear.”

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“In pods, dolphins play, babysit, alert each other to danger like predators, practice courtship, and hunt together,” according to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Superpods tend to be collections of pods rather than thousands of individual dolphins.

Scientists have few sophisticated answers as to why pods come together to form these superpods. Dolphins are very social animals, and in the same way that human behavior tends to change amid a crowd, perhaps dolphins experience the same psycho-phenomenon when clustered in groups.

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