I'm reading Pod by Laline Paull, and I'm looking up things on the internet to help me understand. Spinner dolphins are smaller than Bottlenose. The heroine Ea is a Spinner who doesn't like getting sexual. She is unusual and an outsider, but a good hunter. She doesn't spin, she doesn't hear the music others hear. That made me think of Happy Feet (2006).
I read about how dolphins sleep. They sleep with one eye open and only half their brain sleeps. They switch after 2-4 hours. They call it unihemispheric sleep. One side of the brain sleeps at a time.
This is a Bottlenose dolphin:
I googled archipelagos in Indian Ocean and google lists 12. I'll see if Paull tips her hat at which one of the 12.
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