Download or read book Dolphins A Reason To Believe written by Luca Giovagnoli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sudden and unexpected phone call changes the life of the protagonist, bringing him back to his great passion: the study of dolphins and their language. The opportunity to take part in a scientific expedition creates food for thought with regards to the unknown and the fragility of human life. After a long journey and a series of very special encounters, he arrives at the mecca: Bimini. It is here that, along with a group of researchers from around the world, he begins his research on the interpretation of the language of dolphins. Many days of diving on a fabulous sea and a constant relationship with the dolphins punctuate the march of time. The beautiful Caribbean island is the setting where a series of events occur and where we meet very special characters. Two days before the end of the expedition, something unexpected and very significant happens. It becomes clear to all members of the expedition just how strong the bond between man and dolphin can be. Based on a true story, this book deals with the issue of the protection of the seas and all creatures therein, particularly dolphins. The story provides different interpretations of the relationship between humans and dolphins, showing that is a profound and a mutual one.
Download or read book To Free a Dolphin written by Keith Coulbourn and published by Renaissance Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking campaign to release captive dolphins back into the wild. With wit and insight he chronicles the extreme opposition he has faced from bureaucrats, major players in the captive-dolphin industry, rival wildlife groups, and well-meaning sentimentalists. He introduces readers to famous show animals he has helped, including Bogie and Bacall of Key Largo. And, most fascinating, he describes his struggles to deprogram and rehabilitate dolphins emotionally scarred from years of captivity--struggles that become battles for the animals' souls.
Download or read book 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth And Other Useful Guides written by The Oatmeal and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Matthew Inman's New York Times best selling 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides), samurai sword-wielding kittens and hamsters that love .50-caliber machine guns commingle with a cracked out Tyrannosaur that is extremely hard to potty train. Bacon is better than true love and you may awake in the middle of the night to find your nephew nibbling on your toes. Sixtry of Inman's comic illustrations and life-bending guides are presented in full-color inside 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides). Consider such handy advice as: 4 Reasons to Carry a Shovel at All Times, 6 Types of Crappy Hugs, 8 Ways to Tell if Your Loved One Plans to Eat You, 17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat, and 20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer.
Download or read book A Reason to Believe written by Chris Blake and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the first Seventh-day Adventist Church-sponsored youth doctrinal/baptismal course anyone has seen for a long, long time! We've boiled down the 27 SDA fundamental beliefs to 10, because we like 10 better.
Download or read book Reasons We Believe Foreword by John MacArthur written by Nathan Busenitz and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasons We Believe will reinforce your personal faith and will provide you with a clear, concise, evangelistic tool to help you share that faith with others. In an age of cynics and skeptics, Christianity is constantly under attack. Believers need resources that defend the veracity of their faith. They are searching for clear, concise, and credible answers to both doubts of their own and objections from their unbelieving friends. Nathan Busenitz provides such resources to believers. Reasons We Believe confirms and strengthens the faith of believers by demonstrating the reliability of the twofold authority on which Christianity rests: the Word of God and the person of Jesus Christ. Reasons builds a biblical foundation for the authority of the Bible and then shows how extra-biblical evidence corresponds with and thereby attests to what the Bible claims. This study seeks to reinforce the faith of Christians while also providing them with a straightforward evangelistic tool for reaching non-Christians.
Download or read book In Defense of Dolphins written by Thomas I. White and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, to advocate for their ethical treatment. Encourages a reassessment of the human-dolphin relationship, arguing for an end to the inhuman treatment of dolphins Written by an expert philosopher with almost twenty-years of experience studying dolphins Combines up-to-date research supporting the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of dolphins with entertaining first-hand accounts Looks at the serious questions of intelligent life, ethical treatment, and moral obligation Engaging and thought-provoking
Download or read book Voices in the Ocean written by Susan Casey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the coast of Maui, the bestselling author of The Wave set out on a quest to learn everything she could about dolphins—the other intelligent life on the planet. “Part science, part memoir, part impassioned plea for change.” —People Susan Casey’s journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as “Dolphinville,” where the animals are seen as the key to spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world. Along the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have made it their life’s work to increase humans’ understanding and appreciation of the wonder of dolphins.
Download or read book The Museum of Natural History With Introductory Essay on the Natural History of the Primeval World Etc written by Sir John RICHARDSON and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whales and Dolphins written by Alekseĭ Vladimirovich I︠A︡blokov and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to Congress on Results of Feeding Wild Dolphins 1989 1994 written by Laurel Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are Dolphins Really Smart written by Justin Gregg and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 1289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How intelligent are dolphins? Is their communication system really as complex as human language? And are they as friendly and peaceful as they are made out to be? The Western world has had an enduring love affair with dolphins since the early 1960s, with fanciful claims of their 'healing powers' and 'super intelligence'. Myths and pseudoscience abound on the subject. Justin Gregg weighs up the claims made about dolphin intelligence and separates scientific fact from fiction. He puts our knowledge about dolphin behaviour and intelligence into perspective, with comparisons to scientific studies of other animals, especially the crow family and great apes. He gives fascinating accounts of the challenges of testing what an animal with flippers and no facial expressions might be animal behaviour, Gregg challenges many of the widespread beliefs about dolphins, while also inspiring the reader with the remarkable abilities common to many of the less glamorized animals around us - such as chickens.
Download or read book Are Dolphins Really Smart written by Justin Gregg and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Gregg weighs up the claims made about dolphin intelligence and separates scientific fact from fiction.
Download or read book The Bottlenose Dolphin written by John E. Reynolds, III and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years. After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human attitudes and interactions, the author replaces myths with facts--up-to-date scientific assessment of dolphin evolution, behavior, ecology, morphology, reproduction, and genetics--while also tackling the difficult issues of dolphin conservation and management. Although comprehensive enough to be of great value to professionals, educators, and students, the book is written in a manner that all dolphin lovers will enjoy. Randall Wells’s anecdotes interspersed throughout the work offer a first-hand view of dolphin encounters and research based on three decades working with them. Color photographs and nearly 100 black and white illustrations, including many by National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin, beautifully enhance the text.
Download or read book Peter Parley s Tales of Animals Containing Descriptions of Three Hundred Quadrupeds Birds Fishes Reptiles and Insects Revised Edition with Questions and Other Improvements written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dolphins Porpoises and Whales of the World written by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1991 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dolphin written by Russell Stewart and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of The Dolphin is found among the computer files of a man, Tom, who has recently died. Tom, middle-aged, reclusive, and who spent much time writing on his computer, had lived at home with his mother, Elaine, all his life. After his funeral Elaine invites a neighbour to one day look through Tom's files for anything that might be of interest. The neighbour, Andrew, accepts, and a week or so after the funeral he copies seven files from Tom's computer and takes them home to review. Andrew writes a prologue to explain how he has come to be in possession of The Dolphin, and then presents this story of Tom's Dolphin. THE DOLPHIN A man, Michael, seeks the refuge of an empty farm cottage near the sea, intending to recuperate alone from the recent, emotionally unsettling events in his life. On the morning of his first day he walks out to explore his surroundings but on climbing down the coastal cliff he slips, falls, and is knocked unconscious. On coming to he finds himself on the beach, and walks into the sea to freshen his senses. Immediately he becomes aware of a peculiar sensation in his head, one that recedes, however, when he leaves the water. Further along the beach he finds a sheltered inlet and cove of rocks. There in the water once more he suddenly becomes aware of spoken words, coming not from around him but from, it seems, inside his head. And a dolphin swims into the inlet. Incredibly, the two begin a conversation, the dolphin explaining that Michael is hearing with inner senses. At this he guesses that the earlier mental sensations he felt were some kind of preparation for this exchange. Prompted by Michael's curiosity the dolphin enters into a dialogue with him. In disbelief at what he hears Michael interrogates the creature, growing too insistent and forceful, however, and the dolphin becomes silent and returns to the open sea. Disconsolate, Michael returns to the cottage. The next morning Michael returns to the cove and the dolphin. The dialogue continues and he learns of the power that preconceptions exert on experience, that it is believing that makes things so, and that life is an adventure in consciousness. The dolphin speaks of the state of grace in which all lives exist and comments on the human concern with being objective. There follow observations on religion and on the idea of God; on Earth as a time and space medium in which effective patterns can materialise as physical objects and events; on the mobility of mankind's unique reflective consciousness; on our notion of cause and effect; and on the way that beliefs and values and expectations steer the materialisation of inner affective patterns. The dolphin describes the manipulative nature of both religion, which traditionally promotes the notion of a fallen species steeped in original sin, and science, which insists that we are individually insignificant in an accidental and uncaring universe. The dolphin emphasises that at heart mankind is neither sinful nor insignificant. And that the world is unsafe only to the extent to which each of us believes it to be. The day ends, the dolphin has gone and Michael returns in the twilight to the cottage. The next morning he eagerly sets off again for the cove but then badly twists his ankle on climbing down the cliff. The dolphin uses this 'misfortune' to instruct that all experience is legitimate. No matter how it seems, there are no mistakes. The dolphin describes how illness and injury are not accidents but purposeful events. The very qualities we experience in ourselves - curiosity, creativity, spontaneity - are, firstly, expressions of consciousness; a consciousness that possesses, too, an inherent yearning for self affirmation. Whenever we discover this desire for self affirmation in ourselves, we call this yearning, this primary quality of consciousness, love. By the instruction given the dolphin and from the discoveries to whic
Download or read book Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Cetacea Whales Porpoises and Dolphins written by Debra Lee Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The order Cetacea comprises some amazing species, representing some of the most evolved creatures that inhabit this earth. Yet, they also represent a group of species for which much remains unknown. There are over 80 species of cetaceans composed of porpoises, dolphins and whales. This volume represents the latest of published and previously unpubl
