Dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins are among the most familiar cetaceans, just as whales. The Bottlenose dolphin is a primitive member of the subfamily Delphinine. Bottlenose dolphins are grey, varying from dark grey at the top near the dorsal fin to very light grey and almost white at the underside. There are two ecotypes of bottlenose dolphins the coastal and the offshore. The Coastal dolphin has a small body and large flippers to increase agility and heat dissipation. They have a limited movement into offshore

Is Dolphin Assisted Therapy Beneficial for Special Needs Children? Dayanara Roman Keiser University ENC 43131G Abstract For over two decades Dolphin Assisted Therapy or DAT has been used as a type of sensory therapy used with children and adults diagnosed with either physical or neurological disorders. Through out this time dolphin assisted therapy has been used to assist children with a varying type of disability. Children with autism, Down’s syndrome, developmental delay,

Maui Dolphins are a very rare species with only 55 left in the world. (1) (28) (11) (13) They are a subspecies of the Hector’s dolphins and are found on the West Coast of the North Island in New Zealand between Dargaville and New Plymouth. (1) (13) (2) (28) Maui Dolphins are recognised by their “rounded back dorsal fin” and by their distinctive colouring around their snout of grey, white and black markings. (1) They are approximately around 1.2- 1.4m long with a weight of up to 50kg and feed on small

The Miami Dolphins, a professional football team located in Miami, Florida, has been a part of the National Football League (NFL) since 1966. The organization is most notably known for the 1972 Miami Dolphins football team, led by Don Shula, who went undefeated a won the Super Bowl. This team was the first and, so far, only team to have a perfect season capped off with winning the championship game. From 1966 to 1970 the Miami Dolphins were perceived like they are today as a losing franchise that

In 1933, the finding of the first recorded dolphin drive occurred between 1936 and 1944. According to the ‘History of Taiji’ these hunts in 1969 were being led in a larger scale, this commencing what influenced the Taiji hunts that are happening today. The main aims of these hunts were to capture pilot whales to be ‘initiated’ as prized attractions for the Taiji Whale Museum. Thus, the dolphin drive was purely for profit, having nothing to do with cultural history. As some local fishermen might

SHORT COMMUNICATION A novel case of nuturant care: Adoption of a presumed Delphinus calf by bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Far North waters, New Zealand. CH Petersa* and KA Stockina aCoastal-Marine Research Group, Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand Worldwide inter-specific behavioural interactions in the order Cetacea are diverse and often complex. Epimelatic care can be described as nurturant or Succorant in nature. Adoption can

discuss how dolphins communicate and how symbolic language and collective learning makes humans different from animals. Dr Kathleen Dudzinski is the lead scientist reviewing dolphin communication and is also the director of Dolphin Communication Project which is a group of scientists concentrating on dolphin interaction. It’s important to establish that human language is unique in terms of our ability to use collective learning and symbolic language. We will compare this with dolphin communication

In female dolphins, the integument, sternos, breathe, total muscle, ribs, sternum, scapulae, hyoids, pelvic bones, total skeleton, larynx, lungs, thyroid, liver, trachea, thymus, mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, adrenals, reproductive tract, ovaries, and mammary glands all grew isometrically; the skull, vertebral column, pectoral flippers, brain, heart, kidneys, urinary bladder, intact head, and fluke lobes grew at negative allometric rates; and the locomotor, axial, abdominal, and shoulder muscle

Physiology Paper Dolphins are one of the most familiar and unique marine mammals known to people and occupy all the major oceans and seas of the world. Some species are even known to live in larger river systems. Dolphins belong in the kingdom anamalia; phylum, corata; class mammalia; order, cetacean; sub-order, odonteceti; family, delphinidae; genus, delphinus; and species, delphis. Dolphins are believed to have a long evolutionary past dating back several, tens of millions of years Dolphins are very

of dolphins at Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. In the this movie Richard O’Barry, formerly a dolphin trainer and now an anti-hunt activist, goes to Taiji in order to document the killing of dolphins but receives severe opposition from Japanese fishermen and local government. Jirô Dreams of Sushi tells the story about Jirô Ono, a 91-year-old sushi master and the owner of a Michelin three-star sushi restaurant in Tokyo. Although The Cove is concerned with dolphins and Jirô does not seem to use dolphin meat