Dr. Jason Bruck takes viewers on a meandering journey studying one of the world’s coolest animals. This talk covers communication, cognition, and conservation in dolphins and helps illuminate what we know about dolphin behavior as well as how we can use drones to evaluate dolphin health.
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Deep Dive: Dolphins, Drones and Urine
Wednesday 4 January 2023, 7:00 pm ET on Zoom
In this talk, Dr. Jason Bruck will talk about communication, cognition and conservation in dolphins and help illuminate what we know about dolphin behavior as well as how we can use drones to evaluate dolphin health.
DCP Deep Dive: Distribution of dolphins in nearshore Bimini waters
In this talk, you’ll learn more about DCP’s study on the sympatric distribution of Atlantic spotted and bottlenose dolphins immediately off Bimini’s shores. How do these two dolphin species stay separate? And what type of behaviors do we observe in this nearshore area? Two of the authors, Kel Melillo-Sweeting and Christine Ribic led this talk. The topic was also presented at the SMM conference in August 2022 and featured in a 2022 episode of The Dolphin Pod.
DCP Deep Dive: Lateralization of socio-sexual behavior in belugas
*CW: This talk discusses sexual interactions in non-human animals. For mature audiences.*
In this talk from Dr. Lilley, you’ll learn more about the socio-sexual behavior of belugas (or white whales) and the recent research that examined whether beluga socio-sexual behavior is lateralized.
Wed, Oct 19, 4p ET – Deep Dive Webinar!
Come learn more about the lateralization of socio-sexual behavior of belugas at this free Deep Dive webinar, led by Dr. Malin Lilley!
DCP Deep Dive: Marine Mammals, Human Impacts, and Conservation
This webinar was recorded on 28 Sept 2022.
Every year there are thousands of reports of sick, injured, and dead marine mammals throughout the United States. In this talk, Brooke from Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network goes over three of the biggest human impacts marine mammals face: human interaction, plastic pollution, and shipping traffic. We will also discuss how conservation works and ways you can get involved!
Webinars Resume!
First up, a Deep Dive into the partial merger of two dolphin societies with DCP’s own Nicole Danaher-Garcia. September 14, 2022 7:00 PM ET