Dolphins & Humans: Breaking Barriers Of Communication

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to Greece on his back. Plutocrat wrote Thathos, Odysseus' son, was saved from drowning as a young child through the aid of a dolphin. A roman scholar Plink the Elder, who lived in AD 23-69, wrote about a boy named Hermias. Hermias had many encounters with a friendly dolphin which he would except rides from. One day Hermias was thrown off the dolphins back by a sudden storm and drowned in the sea. The dolphin brought the boy's body back to the shore, and the dolphin threw itself on the shore beside the boy, dying in grief over the boy's death.
The sleek, smooth, streamline body of the dolphin doesn't begin to describe the physiology of the dolphin. Dolphins are a type of small-toothed whales. They have a beaked- like mouth that enables them to easily catch fish. They have approximately ninety conical teeth, no molars. These teeth are not replaceable. Dolphins have an incredible ability to pick up sounds. This is difficult to believe because they only have small openings ...

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a thirty seven degree body temperature.
Dolphins gain over one hundred fifty pounds and grow two feet during the first year of their life. Newborn calves weigh about thirty pounds. The mother dolphin can weigh between four and six hundred pounds. Most dolphin species are about six feet in length, and males somewhat longer. Some dolphins are over nine feet. The average life span of a dolphin is twenty years.
Dolphins are one of the most social animals. "Dolphins are like people; they have ties of families and friendships, they're happier together than alone, and so they seek one another" (Walther 6F). Dolphins have their own families and societies. The typical family consists ...

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