To Touch a Wild Dolphin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Touch a Wild Dolphin write by Rachel Smolker. This book was released on 2011-05-18. To Touch a Wild Dolphin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To 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.
To Touch a Wild Dolphin
To Touch a Wild Dolphin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Touch a Wild Dolphin write by Rachel Smolker. This book was released on 2002-07-09. To Touch a Wild Dolphin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1982, Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote spot in western Australia where she’d heard wild dolphins regularly interact with people. She had no intention of staying long; she simply wanted to see if the rumors were true. That initial trip changed Smolker’s life; it commenced a fifteen-year scientific obsession that has culminated in this fascinating scientific adventure story–the first-ever intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. To Touch A Wild Dolphin is a seminal work that radically alters our fundamental understanding of these enigmatic creatures. Learning to identify scores of dolphins by their dorsal fin, Smolker and her team of scientists were able to conduct close and consistent studies that revealed the dolphin to be even more intelligent than we’d previously suspected. And while they were every bit as playful as we’ve known them to be, they also proved to have a dark and alarmingly violent side. But more than just a document on dolphins, this book is a touchingly personal look at the life of a scientist, at the rigors and sacrifices but also the wonders and joys of unending days in the field. Written with prose poetic and pristine, this book is nothing short of a landmark.
Behind the Dolphin smile
Behind the Dolphin smile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Dolphin smile write by Richard O'Barry. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Behind the Dolphin smile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Behind the Dolphin Smile is the heart-felt true story of an animal lover who dedicated his life to studying and training dolphins, but in the process discovered that he ultimately needed to set them free. Ric O’Barry shares his journey with dolphins and other sea mammals in this captivating autobiographical look back at his years as a dolphin trainer for aquatic theme parks, movies, and television. Also included is a preface relaying a first-hand account of his adventures filming the 2010 Academy Award–winning documentary The Cove, which covertly uncovered Japan’s inhumane dolphin-hunting practices. O’Barry, a successful animal trainer who had had everything—money, flashy cars, pretty women—came to realize that dolphins were easy to train, not because of his great talent, but because they possessed great intelligence, and that keeping them in captivity was cruel and morally wrong. O’Barry now dedicates his life to stopping the exploitation of these exceptional mammals by retraining them to return to their natural habitats.
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins write by Hal Whitehead. This book was released on 2015. The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on their own research as well as scientific literature including evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, two cetacean biologists submerge themselves in the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live. --Publisher's description.
Wet Goddess
Wet Goddess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wet Goddess write by Malcolm Brenner. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Wet Goddess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1970's, a hippie college student falls in love with a female dolphin.
