What Laboratory Research has Told Us about Dolphin Cognition

My heartfelt thanks to the various agencies, institutions and individuals that have supported this work throughout the years. Special thanks to Peter Ranney and LeBurta Atherton for their generous support, and to the many members of the Dolphin Institute. I am grateful to the National Science Foundation who supported this research at various times over many years, including an initial grant at the inception of the research that allowed me to move beyond some early pilot studies and to develop a place where dolphin cognitive and sensory study could continue. I also thank the Office of Naval Research for their support of our cognitive research, especially during the 1980s. Earthwatch provided annual support through their volunteer program from 1982 to 2000. The Dolphin Institute also provided support during the latter half of the 1990s and the turn of the millennium. There are many co-researchers who worked with me and helped produce the work reviewed here. I would like to give special thanks to several in particular who contributed much to the dolphin research, to the laboratory, and to the dolphins. These include, in rough order of their appearance at the lab: Frank Beach III, William Arbeit Jr. (deceased), Michael Yunker (deceased), Roger Thompson, Carolyn Madsen, Ron Antinoja, Paul Forestell, Jim Wolz, Douglas Richards, Joseph Mobley, Gordon Bauer, Adam Pack, John Gory, Susan Reeve, Mark Xitco, Jim Ralston, Matthias Hoffman-Kuhnt, Stacy Braslau-Schneck, Robert Uyeyama, Deirdre Killebrew, Dave Matus, Mark Deakos, Kristin Taylor, Amy Cutting, Eduardo Mercado III, Rebecca Cowan, and Amy Miller.Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Louis M. Herman, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Psychology, 1960 East-West Road, Biomed T311, Honolulu, HI, 96822, U.S.A. ([email protected]). What Laboratory Research has Told Us about Dolphin Cognition