Dolphin societies : discoveries and puzzles
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Dolphin societies : discoveries and puzzles
University of California Press, 1998, c1991
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"First Paperback Printing 1998"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Wild dolphins are an elusive subject for behavioral studies: How can you 'do a Jane Goodall' on animals usually visible only as a glimpse of rolling dorsal fins heading for the horizon? In this unusual book, two of the best-known scientists in the marine-mammal field have assembled an astonishing variety of discoveries about dolphins. The contributions range from a graduate student's first paper to senior scientists summarizing a lifetime of research. The dolphins they have studied range from tiny spinners to majestic pilot whales, from killer whales to the familiar bottle-nosed dolphin. The research tactics vary just as widely: the researchers have followed dolphins in boats, tracked them from shore, dived among hundreds of them (plus a few sharks) in tuna fishing nets. They have used computers and airplanes, genetic analysis and artificial language, and learned to read the life history of a dolphin from the cross-section of a single tooth. Pryor and Norris are successful writers as well as scientists; the book is peppered with entertaining essays, by one or both editors, on the intriguing history of dolphin research.
"Dolphin Societies" not only surveys the most interesting recent research on dolphin behavior but also gives lay readers a fascinating look at the scientific mind at work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
* Karen Pryor and Kenneth S. Norris
PART I. FIELD STUDIES
Essay: Looking at Wild Dolphin Schools
* Kenneth S. Norris
Chapter One. Herd Structure, Hunting, and Play: Bottlenose
Dolphins in the Black Sea
* Edited by V. M. Bel'kovich 17
Chapter Two. Dolphin Movement Patterns: Information from Radio and Theodolite Tracking Studies
* Bernd Wiirsig, Frank Cipriano, and Melany Wiirsig
Chapter Three. The Feeding Ecology of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in the Pacific Northwest
* Frederic L. Felleman, James R. Heimlich-Baran, and Richard W. Osborne
Chapter Four. The Interactions between Killer Whales and Boats in Johnstone Strait, B.C.
* Susan Kruse, with Introductory Comments by Kenneth S. Norris
Chapter Five. Social Structure in Spotted Dolphins (Stene/laattenuata) in the Tuna Purse Seine Fishery in the Eastern
Tropical Pacific
* Karen Pryor and Ingrid Kang Shallenberger
Chapter Six. The Role of Long-Term Study in Understanding the Social Structure of a Bottlenose Dolphin Community
* Randall S. Wells
Chapter Seven. Using Aerial Photogrammetry to Study Dolphin School Structure
* Michael D. Scott and Wayne L. Perryman
PART II. LABORATORY STUDIES
Essay: Mortal Remains: Studying Dead Animals
* Karen Pryor
Chapter Eight. Some New and Potential Uses of Dental Layers in Studying Delphinid Populations
* Albert C. Myrick, Jr.
Chapter Nine. An Overview of the Changes in the Role of a Female Pilot Whale with Age
* Helene Marsh and Toshio Kasuya
Essay: Some Thoughts on Grandmothers
* Kenneth S. Norris and Karen Pryor
PART Ill. CAPTIVE STUDIES: THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING WILD DOLPHINS
Essay: Looking at Captive Dolphins
* Kenneth S. Norris
Chapter Ten. Changes in Aggressive and Sexual Behavior between Two Male Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in a Captive Colony
* Jan Ostman
Chapter Eleven. Use of a Telemetry Device to Identify which Dolphin Produces a Sound
* Peter Tyack
Essay: The Domestic Dolphin
* Karen Pryor
Chapter Twelve. What the Dolphin Knows, or Might Know, in Its Natural World
* Louis M. Herman
Chapter Thirteen. Dolphin Psychophysics: Concepts for the Study of Dolphin Echolocation
* Patrick W. B. Moore
Afterword: Dolphin Politics and Dolphin Science
* Karen Pryor and Kenneth S. Norris
Notes on Contributors
Index 391
Notes on Contributors
Index
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