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In this week’s episode, we will focus our Science Spotlight on ship strikes, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll field questions about dolphin communication from eight year old Emie.
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In this weeks episode, we present The Dolphin Species Song!
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In this week’s episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin communication, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll discuss cookie cutter sharks.
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In this week’s episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin personailites, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll discuss dolphin mittens.
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In this week’s science spotlight, we will be discussing dolphin personalities. For this episode, I interview Dr. Stan Kuczaj. Dr. Kuczaj is a professor of psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he is the director of the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition program at USM. He was kind enough to join us today so we could discuss his research into dolphin personalities.
In this week’s episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphins and whales in the Middle Ages, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll discuss magnetite.
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The age of modern scientific study of dolphins, whales and other animals probably started around the 18th century. Before that time period, what did the average person on the street know about whales and dolphins and how did they come by this information? In today’s science spotlight, we will be speaking with Dr. Ranke de Vries, lecturer in Celtic Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Dr. de Vries studies ancient manuscripts from medieval periods.
In this week’s episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin sleep, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll discuss how you can tell how old a dolphin is by looking at its teeth.
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Dolphins sleep behavior is fundamentally different to that of humans
In this week’s science spotlight, we will be discussing sleep in dolphins and humans. For this episode, I interview Dr. Brendan Lucey. A graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Lucey is currentlya clinical neurophysiology fellow at Brigham and Women’s hospital at Harvard Medical School, and has a keen interest in sleep and sleep disorders. He was kind enough to join us today so we could discuss how sleep works in dolphins, and how it compares to sleep in humans.
In this week’s episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on Dolphin Assisted Therapy, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie, we’ll discuss pink dolphins.
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In this week’s science spotlight, we will be discussing a popular but highly controversial form of animal therapy known as Dolphin Assisted Therapy. This episode features an interview with Dr. Lori Marino, senior lecturer in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, at Emory University. Click here for a link to the Science Spotlight feature on Dolphin Assisted Therapy.
In this week’s episode, we willreview breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on humpback whale echolocation, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie,we’ll discuss Pelorus Jack.
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In this week’s episode, we willdiscuss how you can help conserve dolphin species,review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on the Amazon River dolphin, and in our Kids’ Science Quickie,we’ll discuss colorful dolphins.
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