Save the Dolphins

Rating:
Summary: Not one of the best books on Dolphins.
Review: From the short bio's about these two co-authors, one gets the impression that they are a pair of starry-eyed people just out of college who want to save the whale and change the world. Well good luck to them - but this book is not a good start.

Basically, the book has far too many empty spaces on far too many pages for my liking. Yes, there are actually pages with such little text that more than half the page is simply empty. Many of the other are one third empty.

As for the content itself, it was very predictable from the start. Firstly they introduce the Dolphin (evolution, social behaviour etc), show all it's body parts and then get on to their being killed. Plenty of emotive photos - including one showing a Dolphin being cuddled by it's keeper and then it's on to photos of blood and guts.

These authors could learn a lot about the Dolphin from reading the works of Jacques Cousteau published over 30 years ago.

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