Benidorm Is Home to First Bottlenose Dolphin Born Through Artificial Insemination

First dolphin born through artificial insemination in Mundomar

Mundomar, the animal park in Benidorm famous for its dolphin and sea lion acrobatics shows, has just announced the birth of the first ever bottlenose dolphin in Spain to be conceived through artificial insemination.

The baby dolphin, who will continue to live in the Mundomar instalments, was born at 2.12am on 20 July through a pioneering artificial insemination programme never carried out in this country before.

The mother of the baby bottlenose is Aqua, one of the female dolphins that lives in the park.

Exhaustive tests, medical controls and training were carried before the procedure, which involved inserting fresh semen that had been refrigerated into the female’s vagina for the best results.

Mundomar worked in collaboration with experts from the Department of Physiology at the University of Murcia to ensure