| Some scientists who work with dolphins believe that | | | | annoyance or danger. Just like humans, dolphins like to |
| these sea-dwellers show a sense to the disability and | | | | gesture when they interact with each other. To |
| physical trauma associated with function and pain in | | | | communicate, they use body language or they whistle |
| humans, therefore making the cranio-sacral therapy | | | | and they stroke one another with their fins as if |
| possible. Dolphins, with their internal sonar or | | | | bonding socially. When they swim together as friends, |
| echo-location can feel where the person hurts the | | | | they move synchronously leaping in and out of the |
| most and are able to gently nudge and play without | | | | water. When they are angry or aggressive, they open |
| hurting the person.Once, two dolphins saved a writer | | | | their mouths or clap their jaws violently.Dolphins can |
| while he was swimming far off the coast of California. | | | | dive to great depths and also can leap high over the |
| The man was a good swimmer and swimming had | | | | water. Being mammals, they need to breathe, but |
| become his daily routine. One day, far away from the | | | | unlike humans their breathing is voluntary. They breathe |
| shore, he felt very tired, too tired to lift his arms or kick. | | | | through the opening on the top of their heads. It is |
| Suddenly, two dolphins came to his rescue. They | | | | possible that dolphins can drown. When that happens |
| swam with their bodies touching him and they | | | | other dolphins come to the drowning dolphin's aid, |
| propelled him forward by fastening their nose under his | | | | supporting his body in such a way that his blowhole |
| arms to keep him afloat, until they came close to the | | | | stays above the water.To sleep, dolphins have to shut |
| shore where there were other people. By this time, the | | | | down only half of their brain, which probably means |
| writer had regained enough strength to swim a few | | | | that they are always alert to danger. Dolphins also |
| more yards to safety. He says the dolphins didn't leave | | | | take short naps as they float just below the surface. |
| immediately. They kept leaping off shore to make sure | | | | Yet, unlike humans, their most active feeding time is the |
| he made it to land safely.Many incidents of dolphins | | | | night, although they spend a good amount of the day |
| saving people at sea have been reported. Some time | | | | looking for food.One of the best dolphin research |
| ago, it was in the news that a pod of dolphins | | | | centers is located in the Marathon Key, Florida. Here |
| defended a group of swimmers by circling protectively | | | | and at other dolphin centers around the world, the |
| around them to fend off the attack of the great white | | | | project of aiding handicapped children with Dolphins is |
| shark. The swimmers were on a lifeguard training | | | | carefully investigated, with the therapy based on the |
| swim about hundred yards off the shore. At first, the | | | | dolphin's natural desire to come into contact with |
| men didn't understand that there was a shark. One of | | | | humans. Through interaction with dolphins, children with |
| them swam away but was pushed back into the circle | | | | Autism, Down's Syndrome, anorexia, depression, |
| by the dolphins. At that time he saw a nine-foot shark | | | | cancer, and learning disabilities have exhibited positive |
| two yards away from him. The men spent about forty | | | | results by calming down and showing a better sense |
| minutes before in that circle before the dolphins let | | | | of importance and self-confidence.There are, however |
| them swim back to the shore. Since sharks are | | | | opposing views and theories. In 2003, a report by |
| dolphins' greatest enemies, it is possible that they | | | | WDCS (Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) and |
| protected the men as if the swimmers were their own | | | | HSUS (the Humane Society of the United States) |
| offspring.There are many different species of dolphins. | | | | claims that the risk to dolphins overweighs the positive |
| A familiar one is Flipper's kind, the bottlenose dolphin. | | | | effects of their interaction with humans in |
| One of the world's most endangered species is a | | | | dolphin-petting zoos. Dolphins become obese with the |
| dolphin called by many names such as Beiji; Pai C'hi; | | | | excess feeding by the public and extended exposure |
| Chinese River Dolphin; Yangtze Dolphin; Whitefin | | | | to humans subject the animals to stress and injury. |
| Dolphin; Whiteflag Dolphin. It inhabits the Yangtze River | | | | Also some children, even if very few, have been |
| in China. It is said that these animals are very close to | | | | reported to regress in their development from being |
| being extinct since there are only 5 of them left, | | | | pushed by their families and the fright of the animals or |
| whereas in 1984 there were 400.Warm-blooded like | | | | the water.Given the positive use of dolphin and human |
| men, dolphins are mammals, not fish, and they give | | | | contact, more research is needed, and attention to the |
| birth to one baby at a time, nursing their young up to | | | | dolphin petting areas and more closely observed rules |
| four years. They live in social groups called pods and | | | | of hygiene and sanitation are in order, so that both |
| interact with each other very closely. These pods' | | | | species can continue to benefit from each other.Joy |
| make-up can change, since dolphins interact with | | | | Cagil is an author on a site for |
| dolphins from other pods from time to time. A lone | | | | Writers ( Her training is in foreign languages and |
| dolphin that has lost his friends at sea can easily be | | | | linguistics. In her background are varied subjects such |
| adopted by another pod.Dolphins have powerful tails | | | | as psychology, mental health, and visual arts. |
| that not only help to steer them in water, but also signal | | | | |