This article provides a report of the behavior of a solitary sociable dolphin studied on the southeast coast of England in 2007. This is the first study of its kind in which behavior of such a nonhuman animal was systematically studied. By the time of this study, this young female was highly interactive with people in the water. People accompanied the dolphin for 18.4% of the 100 hr of observat...

This pilot study examined a dolphin assisted therapy for patients with eating disorder (EDs). 25 patients received a multimodal treatment consisting of dolphin interaction in combination with psycho education, cognitive behavioral therapy, nutritional education and craniosacral therapy. These patients were compared to a control group of 7 patients with standard behavioral therapy program. Three...

When I was a student at Wuhan University, the last captive individual of baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), species freshwater dolphin, living Freshwater Dolphin Research Centre Institute Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy Sciences [...]

One of the most effective ways for a dolphin to perceive its environment for the purpose of prey detection is to use its active and passive (listening) sonar capabilities. Acoustic energy propagates in water more efficiently than any other form of energy, so that an active sonar capability is ideal for life in an aquatic environment. Dolphin sound emissions can be classified into two broad cate...

Bottlenose dolphin stock structure in the northeast Atlantic remains poorly understood. However, fine scale photo-id data have shown that populations can comprise multiple overlapping social communities. These social communities form structural elements of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) [corrected] populations, reflecting specific ecological and behavioural adaptations to local habitat...

Boaters have provisioned a free-ranging bottlenose male dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) for more than 15 years near Nokomis, Florida. The dolphin is a well-known attraction to tourists and local boaters because of his predictable presence in a narrow section of the Intracoastal Waterway near the Albee Road Bridge. Observations and records collected since 1990 documented this animal being fed by an...

We radio tracked 20 pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the pelagic waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean during three research cruises in 1992, 1993, and 2001. Dolphins were tracked for up to 6 d from 20 to 1,000 km offshore. Seventeen of these dolphins also carried time–depth recorders, nine of which were recovered with a combined total of 477 h of dive data. The movem...

To contribute to the phylogenetic evaluation of the river dolphin, the morphology of the tracheobronchial tree of the Ganges river dolphin was analyzed according to Nakakuki's fundamental bronchial tree model of mammals. In the right lung, the bronchial tree consists of the tracheal bronchus, five lateral series bronchi, three dorsal series bronchi and one ventral series bronchus. In the left l...

This paper presents results on applying a version of the Dolphin search-control learning system to speed up a partial-order planner. Dolphin integrates explanation-based and inductive learning techniques to acquire e ective clause-selection rules for Prolog programs. A version of the UCPOP partial-order planning algorithm has been implemented as a Prolog program and Dolphin used to automaticall...