Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas
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Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting, mating, giving birth and communicating. Dolphin Diaries is an account of Herzing's research and her surprising findings on wild dolphin behavior, interaction, and communication. Readers will be drawn into the highs and lows—the births and deaths, the discovery of unique and personalized behaviors, the threats dolphins face from environmental changes, and the many funny and wonderful encounters Denise painstakingly documented over many years. This is the perfect book for anyone who loves these incredibly versatile and intelligent creatures and wants to find out more than the dolphin show at the zoo can offer. Herzing is a true pioneer in her field and deserves a place in the pantheon of naturalists and scientists next to Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.
Dr. Denise L. Herzing
DR. DENISE L. HERZING, author of Dolphin Diaries, is the founder and director of The Wild Dolphin Project, a fellow with the Explorer’s Club, a founding member of the Marine Mammal Society, and a professor in biological sciences at Florida Atlantic University. She is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship in Science Writing, and was nominated for a Wings World Quest award. She lives in Palm Beach County, Florida.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read this book to learn about the most recent research in dolphin behavior for a book I want to try and write for the NaNoWriMo project. The author of this book, as the title implies, spent 25 years observing Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas and relates her research year by year.While there was fascinating information, like how females babysat youngsters belonging to others and how young dolphins were trained in proper dolphin behavior, there was also a lot of information about the author and her tribulations through the years. She compared her observing techniques to those of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Hmm!One of the types of behavior we are shown over and over again is how the dolphins mounted others of the same or different gender, same or different age groups, even same or different species. The book is presented chronologically, year by year, and like the author, I held my breath as she returned each year to see which of her dolphins were still around and what new additions had arrived.She concludes her book with a rant about captive dolphins and the advent of swimming-with-dolphin facilities and eco-tourism invading dolphin habitat. (She hosted eco-tourists as a way to finance her study but that was acceptable?) I was a bit disgusted that after all the time she spent playing with, observing, and teaching dolphins, she tells the readers that they may not come near them. While I agree that dolphins are best left alone to survive on their own, I felt offended by this.Eventually I found myself glancing over the sections that talked about her and concentrated more on the sections about the dolphins themselves. That's what I opened the book for.