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To touch a wild dolphin

Smolker, Rachel (Author).

Summary: "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 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."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 038549176X
  • ISBN: 9780385491761
  • Physical Description: print
    274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2001.
Subject: Smolker, Rachel
Biologists United States Biography
Dolphins Behavior Australia Shark Bay (W.A.)
Smolker, Rachel
Biologists
Dolphins Behavior
Indian Ocean Shark Bay
United States
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biography.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library QL 737 .C4 S66 2001 289816 Stacks Available -

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