“…They exhibit flexibility in resource preferences depending on habitat conditions and prey availability (Wilson & Wilson, 1988;Blackwell et al, 1997). They primarily target fish and invertebrates on the benthos or schooling species, mostly small fish (Blackwell et al, 1995;Gagnon et al, 2020). Bottlenose dolphins, the most common and widely distributed small cetacean in the coastal waters of North and Central America, inhabit a variety of coastal marine habitats and display a vast diversity of feeding tactics, particularly in inshore waters (Barros & Wells, 1998;Allen et al, 2001;Torres & Read, 2009).…”