Bottlenose Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphin

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Other television appearances by Bottlenose Dolphins include "seaQuest DSV", and the HBO TV movie "Zeus and Roxanne", in which a female Bottlenose Dolphin befriends a male dog.

Bottlenose Dolphins also have appeared in several novels. In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and one of its sequels, "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish", the dolphins try to warn humans of the impending detruction of earth but their behaviour was misinterpreted as playful acrobatics. Bottlenose Dolphins are also central to David Brin's series of Uplift Universe novels, particularly "Startide Rising", where they are one of the two non-human species (along with Chimpanzees) to have been uplifted to sentience. Bottlenose Dolphins are also primary characters in Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series, especially "The Dolphins of Pern". Bottlenose Dolphins also are incorporated into the science fiction video game series "Ecco the Dolphin". A dolphin, Delphineus, is also featured in the video game EchoQuest: The Search for Cetus, assisting the boy, Adam, in finding the sea king Cetus (a sperm whale), as well as assisting in cleaning up the underwater environment where he lives.

Factual descriptions of the dolphins date back into antiquity - the writings of Aristotle, Oppian and Pliny the Elder all mention the species.cite book | author=Constantine, R.| editor= Perrin, W., Würsig, B. & Thewissen, J. | title=Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals | publisher=Academic Press |chapter=Folklore and Legends| page =448| year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-12-551340-2]

ee also

*Cetacean intelligence
*Dolphinarium
*Audiograms in mammals

References

;General references


* — "Discusses distinguishing features between Bottlenose Dolphin species"
* Reiss, D. and Marino, L. (2001). Self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence. "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," May 8, 98 (10), 5937-5942.

External links

* [http://www.tursiops.org/ Tursiops.org: Current Cetacean-related news]
* [http://www.wdcs.org.au/ www.wdcs.org.au: Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society]
* [http://tursiops.br.googlepages.com/ Dolphins of South Brasilian Coast]
* [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OlB7oVP8MPY/ You Tube (bottlenose dolphins tail-walking South Australia] video
* [http://www.bajolagua.es/Delfines/index.html Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenose dolphin) Photo Gallery]
* [http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/mammals/Tursiops_truncatus/ ARKive] Photographs, video.


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