Dolphin in the Mirror : Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives

English

ISBN: 0547445725

EAN: 9780547445724

Category: Psychology / General/Nature / Marine Life/Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 08/26/2011

Synopsis: Dolphins aren???t just beloved, they are brilliant and conscious. So why do we treat them so terribly? Diana Reiss is one of the world???s leading experts on dolphin intelligence. In addition, as a dolphin advocate, she is a leading rescuer who helped inspire and served as an adviser for the Oscar-winning film The Cove. Here, she combines her science and activism to show just how smart dolphins really are and why we must stop mistreating them. Readers will be astonished at their sophisticated lifelong creativity and playfulness, their emotional intelligence, their level of self-awareness, and their ability to communicate with humans. Her beloved mentor dolphins (as she calls them), each with distinct personalities, create their own toys, use underwater keyboards, tease and scold her playfully, and give us glimpses of their intelligence that often seem very familiar. The Dolphin in the Mirroris both a scientific revelation and an emotional eye-opener, revealing one of the greatest intelligences on the planet.

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Dolphin in the Mirror : Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 17.32 oz

Pages: 288