Follow a Wild Dolphin
Author: Horace E. Dobbs
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780285622555
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Author: Horace E. Dobbs
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780285622555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachel Smolker
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307794105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow scientists were able to explore the lives of dolphins as they had never been explored before: up close, in their natural environment, with a definite recognition of individual dolphin identities. Smolker came to know the relationships, histories, and "personalities" of the dolphins. In To Touch a Wild Dolphin she offers delightful portraits of dolphins she became close to, ranging from the playful and incredibly silly to the slightly crazy, moody, and unpredictable. This develops into an examination of dolphin society and the diversity of characters that inhabit it. And ultimately from the intriguing, sometimes violent differences between the sexes to the nature of mother-infant relationships, to the wide repertoire of sounds used for social communication Smolker is able to reveal the inner workings of dolphin life with unprecedented clarity. Smolker was initially attracted to dolphins for the reasons that attract so many people to them: an elusive sense of their intelligence and their social and emotional complexity, a sense that despite the fact that we live in such entirely different worlds, dolphins are somehow like us. Now, after years of fascinating, inspiring, sometimes troubling, and occasionally heartbreaking experiences with the dolphins of Monkey Mia, Smolker is able to unravel many of the mysteries surrounding these beloved animals. To Touch a Wild Dolphin is a personal book in many ways, at the level of the dolphins and also at the level of the scientist. It is an important book, one that greatly enhances our understanding of dolphins and of ourselves, and as such it will take its place alongside such classics as Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf and Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man.
Author: Keith Coulbourn
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1250099838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking campaign to release captive dolphins back into the wild. With wit and insight he chronicles the extreme opposition he has faced from bureaucrats, major players in the captive-dolphin industry, rival wildlife groups, and well-meaning sentimentalists. He introduces readers to famous show animals he has helped, including Bogie and Bacall of Key Largo. And, most fascinating, he describes his struggles to deprogram and rehabilitate dolphins emotionally scarred from years of captivity--struggles that become battles for the animals' souls.
Author: Horace Dobbs
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horace E. Dobbs
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780285629684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy Donovan
Publisher:
Published: 2015-04
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781942155041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the magic of desire, Sean discovers he can speak with Mari, a young dolphin mother, who takes him aboard her back for a day on the ocean. But just beyond the harbor jetty, Mari's pod is scattered by a tuna fleet, and Sean soon wonders if either he or the pod will survive to tell the tale. Searching for Mari's missing son, they confront the dangers of the sea - from lost drift nets to lightning storms - and readers learn how different life is for wild dolphins from those in captivity.
Author: Karen Pryor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780520216563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of current dolphin research.
Author: Therese
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781439223147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDolphin Dimension chronicles author Therese's adventures with the wild dolphins of Hawaii. Experience the boundless joy and transformational energy of these unconditionally loving beings.
Author: Kathleen Dudzinski
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho can resist dolphins? They're so smart, and they have that mysterious smile. But they're wild animals -- possibly friendly, potentially dangerous. And only a very few people get a chance to meet them in the wild. Kathleen Dudzinski is one of them. Dudzinski has studied dolphins all over the world. Everywhere she goes, she observes gestures, sounds, and behaviors to try to figure out how dolphins communicate. She has watched mother dolphins teach their babies how to hunt and swum with a pod of dolphins to figure out how they all know to turn at the same time. She's even built an underwater camera housing with microphones to record and study dolphin sounds in stereo. In "Meeting Dolphins," Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, marine biologist and subject of the large-format film "Dolphins," tells her own story and the story of the dolphins she has come to know and love.
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 038553731X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the coast of Maui, the bestselling author of The Wave set out on a quest to learn everything she could about dolphins—the other intelligent life on the planet. “Part science, part memoir, part impassioned plea for change.” —People Susan Casey’s journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as “Dolphinville,” where the animals are seen as the key to spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world. Along the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have made it their life’s work to increase humans’ understanding and appreciation of the wonder of dolphins.