Dolphins in Science
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New documentary movie on the Ganges River DolphinThe Ganges River Dolphin or Susu lives in on of the most densely populated regions on earth, the Ganges River watershed. Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha is one of the leading experts on this species and has been working to protect it for over 25 years. more |
Pingers - a means of protecting dolphins?
Acoustic alarms, known as pingers, have been applied to a number of gillnet and driftnet fisheries. Some species avoid nets with pingers, including harbor porpoise (Kraus et al. 1997) and short-beaked common dolphin (Barlow and Cameron 2003), and thus pingers can help reduce bycatch in gillnets. moreReview of Small Cetaceans
In cooperation with CMS, Prof. Dr. Boris Culik of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany has compiled a fact book about small cetaceans. moreProtecting Cetaceans - The role of CMS
Margi Prideaux from our YoD partner WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, composed this document on the CMS and Cetacean Conservation. The document was published by WDCS in 2003. moreReport on the state of the Indus River Dolphin
WWF Pakistan scientist Gill Braulik conducted a study on the status of the Indus River Dolphin in Pakistan. moreWWF Nepal reports on the Ganges River Dolphin
The Ganges River Dolphin is one of the most threatened Dolphin species. WWF Nepal has recently compiled a report on its status in Nepal. more
White, Thomas I. Ph.D. (2007)In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier (Oxford: Blackwell) This book argues that dolphins have intellectual and emotional abilities sophisticated enough to grant them "moral standing". more |
Pack, A. A., & Herman, L. M. (2006)
Dolphin Social Cognition and Joint Attention: Our Current Understanding. Aquatic Mammals, 32, 443-460.
Recent intense interest in social cognition in dolphins reflects
findings that wild dolphins live in complex societies that rely on
following attributes: individual recognition, a protracted period of
development, coalition formation, and cooperative, as well as
competitive, social behaviors. more
C. Connor, Richard (2006)
Dolphin social intelligence: complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments
for extreme brain size evolution in mammals. more
for extreme brain size evolution in mammals. more
Simmonds, Mark Petser (2006)
Into the brains of whales. Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Brookfield House, 103-116
Whilst studies on cetaceans have focused on a few populations of just a few species, various complex behaviours and social structures that support the notion that cetaceans should be regarded as intelligent animals have been revealed. more
