Dolphins

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Summary: Interesting facts about dolphins
Review: The author squeezes so much information into 90 pages that, at times, he sounds like an encyclopedia. He includes but goes beyond discussing dolphin types, habitats, family life, feeding habits, and echolocation. He explains, for example, how dolphins avoid turbulences in water when swimming at high speed; that they are the only animals that can follow instructions given on a TV screen; how they team up with sea birds or use tools to catch prey, and many other fascinating facts. Wonderful photographs show popular and lesser known dolphins such as the bottlenose and Irrawaddy dolphins in Cambodia, respectively, In the last chapter, the author also discusses ongoing research, and dangers dolphins face from commercial fishing practices, underwater noise pollution, and toxic effluent from land-based industry.

I wish the author had explained if and how research equipment attached to dolphins affects their swimming, social and feeding habits. Some of the equipment is quite substantial and must interfere in some way. On the one hand he seems so interested in how dolphins avoid turbulences, especially around their heads, on the other hand he does not explain how hydrophones attached to the dolphins' heads interfere with swimming speed, and other behaviors. Overall, however, it is an interesting book with lots of information.


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Summary: Great Book!!!!
Review: This is an awesome books on dolphins!Tells about feeding,family life,humans and dolphins,coservation and lots more. I don't know how so much info could be in 1 small book!The pictures are GREAT!I've looked at them a million times.No complaints here, I highly recommend this book!!