Sentences with phrase «studies wild dolphins»

That's makes sense to Richard Connor, an animal behaviorist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, who studies wild dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, and who supervised a student who studied killer whales at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

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Heading up the longest - running wild - dolphin study ever conducted, he has become the world's leading authority on a creature whose domed forehead and fixed grin invite both affection and misunderstanding.

However, we know very little about the meaning of different howl types and what they are actually communicating, says Kershenbaum, because — as with dolphins, that other highly vocal, smart and social species which he studies — wolves are extremely difficult to study in the wild.

This highly specific tool use has implications for cognition and brain evolution among cetaceans and could even be considered a case of problem solving, a phenomenon difficult to document in the wild, but well established in studies of captive bottlenose dolphins [48].

White has long been involved with efforts to study and protect dolphins, as well, and is on the scientific advisory board of the Wild Dolphin Project, a long - term research effort off the Bahamas that was written up (and videotaped) for The Times in 2011 by my friend Erik Olsen.