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Fungie (/ ˈ f ʊ ŋ ɡ i /), also known as the Dingle Dolphin, [4] was a male common bottlenose dolphin. He became separated from other wild dolphins and lived in very close contact with the people of Dingle on the southwest coast of Ireland.
20 paź 2020 · In 2019, he was named the oldest solitary dolphin in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. Nuala Moore, an extreme swimmer from Dingle, described Fungie as her "training buddy".
Fungie decided to continue this new chapter travelling the world helping animals in danger as a result of climate change. Even though he was sad that he had to leave the people of Dingle, he...
17 paź 2021 · Fungie, a bottlenose dolphin, had been living in Dingle, in southwest County Kerry, since 1983. From the day he arrived there, Fungie set himself out from the rest, throwing fish he’d caught...
1 lis 2020 · It was in the mid-1980s when Ronan Quinlan first heard about a dolphin in Dingle Bay. Local divers Ronnie Fitzgibbon and John O’Connor had been swimming with the dolphin (named Fungie by a...
27 gru 2020 · THE WONDER AND awe Fungie caused by his unusually friendly behaviour hasn’t abated since he arrived in Dingle harbour in 1983.
1 paź 2019 · Fungie, the dolphin that has been charming visitors and locals in Dingle, Co Kerry for decades, has been named as the oldest solitary dolphin in the world by Guinness World Records.
