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Dolphin Research Center

🇺🇸 United States

🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, United States 6 spp. present

The Dolphin Research Center (DRC) is a dolphinarium on Grassy Key, Florida. The 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) series of saltwater lagoons is home to several dolphins and California sea lions. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

24.767° N   80.946° W

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Essentials

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TourismHigh
Species present
6
species
Opened
1984
SizeSmall

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Before you go

Where is Dolphin Research Center?

United States

Dolphin Research Center is a zoo or wildlife park in the United States. Its coordinates are 24.767° N, 80.946° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Everglades National Park, about 55 km away.

What animals can you see at Dolphin Research Center?

6 species

Citizen-science photos record 6 species at Dolphin Research Center, including Bottlenose Dolphin, African Spurred Tortoise, California Sea Lion, Green Iguana and Hyacinth Macaw. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.

Where can you see the animals of Dolphin Research Center in the wild?

Bottlenose Dolphin: Bahía de Loreto National Park

Some of the animals photographed at Dolphin Research Center also live in the parks and cities we cover: Bottlenose Dolphin (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Bahía de Loreto National Park), California Sea Lion (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Channel Islands National Park) and Green Iguana (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Tortuguero National Park).

When did Dolphin Research Center open and how big is it?

Opened 1984, 0.1 ha

Dolphin Research Center, a zoo or wildlife park in the United States, opened in 1984 and covers about 0.1 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 6 species are photographed there.

Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)