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THE SECRETS OF THE DOLPHINS BOOK
HELEN KAY,YEAR:1964
At Opbnoni Beach, New Zealand, in 1955, twelve-year-old Jill Baker was befriended bya dolphin. For six months the young girl and "Opo," as the dolphin was named, played water polo and tag to the delight of thousands of weekly visitors. When Opo died suddenly she was mourned by chil- dren and grownups alike. Jill Baker's dolphin is just one of the personalities who cavort through this fasci- nating cpllection of anecdotes, history , legends, and scientificfacts-about the sea's most playful yet intelligent mammal. Cen- turies ago, the Greeks were delighted .by dolphins: Pliny, Aesop, Aristotle, and rlu- tarch all speculated on .the animal's great speed in the water and on its ability to "hear without an ear." Dolphins were favorites of the Elizabethans, too, who considered "porpoise pie" a kingly treat. But today dolphins are really coming in- to their own with both sight-seers and sci- entists. At Marin~ Studios, Marineland, Florida, dolphins perform a wide reper- toire of stunts for crowds of tourists. And scientists are rushing to' discover the ani- mals' secrets-"echo-locating" (which we call SONAR), and the use of a highly complex language. Until a dolphin dictates his own story, this book will stand as our most thoroughly researched and most entertaining account of "the clown of the sea " through the ages.
CONDITION: BINDING INTACT, EX LIBRARY WITH EXPECTED MARKINGS, DUSTJACKET IS COVERED WITH MYLAR COVERING, EDGE WEAR
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