Effects of swim‐with‐dolphin tourism on the behaviour of spinner dolphins, at Samadai Reef in the Egyptian Red Sea

Spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris , are the primary target for marine mammal tourism in Egypt. The present study investigated the short‐term effects of tourist presence on the behaviour of spinner dolphins at Sha'ab Samadai (Samadai Reef), in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. The reef has a large central lagoon where a population of spinner dolphin regularly rest from mid‐morning to mid‐afternoon; visitors are permitted to snorkel in the...