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Dolphin (Paperback)
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Dolphin (Paperback)
Series: Animal Series
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List price R431
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
You Save R40 (9%)
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From Flipper to SeaWorld, dolphins have long captured our hearts.
We love these friendly, intelligent mammals, and they seem to
return our feelings--they enjoy interacting with swimmers and have
been known to encircle people under attack by sharks. Despite our
familiarity with dolphins, though, we remain ill-informed about how
they evolved, how they function and how they have interacted with
humans for millennia. Dolphin dives into the dolphin's zoology, as
well as its social and cultural history, to offer a comprehensive
view of these delightful creatures. Drawing on his years of
experience working with and studying dolphins, Alan Rauch explores
their propensity to live in pods and their ability to communicate
through a variety of clicks, whistles and other vocalizations. He
examines their long relationship with humans, describing how they
became the emblem of safe travel and charity, that the ancient
Greeks featured them on coins and that Hindu mythology associated
them with Ganga, a river deity. As the rise in popularity of
dolphinaria during the 1960s allowed the public access to dolphins,
they became central characters in films like The Day of the Dolphin
and Johnny Mnemonic and outsmarted humans in The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy. Packed with images and thoughtful insights, Dolphin
is a revealing look at one of our favorite sea creatures.
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