4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 2, 2013

Seems that some dolphins are getting in on the March Madness! College basketball legend Dick Vitale has been going head-to-head in a bracket pick ‘em contest against the sports-predicting dolphins of Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium as part of the Allstate March Mayhem Challenge. After the first three rounds of the tournament, the Georgia Aquarium dolphins are only one pick off from tying Vitale for total number of correct game picks (30 to 31).

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2018

Dolphins have always fascinated me, so when we got offered a review copy of the book Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean, I was very excited to read it. There is something about dolphins that capture our imagination, and if you … Continue reading → books wildlife

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day. On one hand, dolphins are apex predators and a proof of a preserved ecosystem. said that he dreamt of river dolphins. This dolphin shapeshifter is called an encantado.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 5, 2013

A male dolphin calf was born at Discovery Cove in Orlando Monday, February 25, at 10:05 pm. This is Kendall’s fourth birth and the 26th dolphin born at Discovery Cove since the park opened in 2000. Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive day resort experience where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches. cute animals dolphins wildlife

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The dolphin-therapy business has been booming, fueled in part by the rapid growth in diagnoses of childhood mental disorders such as autism. Smith, who was originally inspired by watching a dolphin interact with her mentally disabled brother in the 1970s, offered the therapy free of charge for more than a decade, before abandoning the work out of ethical concerns in the 1990s. Tags: dolphin

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JANUARY 9, 2010

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MAY 1, 2013

Even people with no other interest in wildlife, who couldn’t tell a sparrow from an ostrich (or even a dolphin from a fish) love dolphins. Dolphins are basically just smart sharks that breath air. Sure, you might say that sharks eat people and dolphins don’t, but most sharks don’t eat people, and we can’t rule out the possibility that dolphins are simply better at doing it without getting caught. And dolphins can do bad things.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The moving of Europe's biggest military exercise to the outer Moray Firth poses a threat to bottlenose dolphins, conservations have claimed. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said noise from warships' sonar could harm the animals. Tags: dolphin europe sonar military According to the BBC.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2010

This is a good argument from PETA for keeping dolphins out of aquariums. (At Tags: dolphin marine animals aquariums PETA At my book club last week, someone actually admitted she craves fish and chips every time she goes to the aquarium! Shudder!).

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fishermen and a teenage boy from an eastern Canadian town rescued three exhausted dolphins that had been trapped behind drifting pack ice for nearly a week, the wife of the town's mayor said Friday. Sadie May said the men cut a path through the sludgy ice in Newfoundland's Seal Cove harbor with their 18-foot trawler Thursday night, freeing the dolphins from an oval-shaped hole in the ice they had been swimming in for days. Tags: canada dolphin newfoundland animal rescue

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JANUARY 23, 2009

The moment Flipper died in his arms, Richard O’Barry was transformed from a dolphin trainer into an activist determined to free captive dolphins around the world. Today, the man who trained Flipper for the popular 1960s TV series is crusading against the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, captured by hidden cameras in a chilling documentary called “The Cove” that’s being shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. She believes dolphins have "fun" doing shows.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The long-running dispute between the US and Mexico over Washington’s ‘dolphin safe’ labelling practice for tuna products is likely to see a WTO appeal, after the two parties together asked for an extension of the appeals deadline. World Trade Organization economics dolphin mexico tuna trade fishing usFrom the Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 6, 2012

A dolphin calf was born Saturday morning 6/30/12 at 8:47 a.m. Park guests can see the pair at SeaWorld’s Dolphin Nursery where pregnant dolphins, new mothers, their calves and experienced moms live together. at SeaWorld Orlando. The young calf’s sex is unknown at this time, but it has been seen nursing and bonding with its mom, Starkey, both a good indication that the calf is doing well. This is Starkey’s sixth birth.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 14, 2012

A 3 ½ foot-long, 35-pound dolphin was born at Discovery Cove ® on Friday, November 30 at 10:22 a.m. This dolphin calf is the first born at Discovery Cove that was conceived through the use of “sperm-sexing” research, which involves separating sperm carrying a female-producing X chromosome from sperm carrying a male-producing Y chromosome. pioneered the ability to preferentially produce female or male dolphin offspring though sperm-sexing and artificial insemination.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 12, 2011

Click the image to see the full article and video of an amazing interaction between a cat and a dolphin. Things like this always make me happy, it’s so fun to see such curiosity between two animals that would normally never meet. Doesn’t it make you wish we could all be so friendly? cute video

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 22, 2009

A dolphin baby boom is happening at Discovery Cove , with four dolphins giving birth in the past month. Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive family adventure where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches. Check out the fun video of the dolphins: Tags: cute animals cute video

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It's that time of year in Taiji Japan when they start slaughtering dolphins. You can read about Save Japan Dolphin's efforts here. It looks like there is at least some hope.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size."

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2010

The law has been around since 1962 and it's the legacy of an albino dolphin named Snowball. Tags: captivity dolphin south carolina marine animals

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AUGUST 8, 2009

They are basically portrayed as benefiting from the horrific hunting and capture of dolphins in Japan. Tags: captivity dolphin marine life Japan amusement parks It is not a favorable portrayal.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The World Wildlife Fund has reported that dolphins and other marine life have been swimming around in an oil spill off the coast of Australia. Tags: australia dolphin oil spill marine life There have not been many deaths yet, but the toxicity could lead to long-term health effects for the animals.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 27, 2008

Once before, around the time of Plato and Aristotle, the dolphins began tentatively to approach man. In the lore of the dolphins it is recorded that at some moment in time a few individual human beings will break through to a new, transhuman level of consciousness, will become true philosophers comprehending the whole in all its parts, and will quietly leave the city of man and make contact with the dolphins. In one, the philosophers join the dolphins and never return.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. However, she really liked dolphins because she thought they were so cute in their shows. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic. Tags: captivity dolphin animal cruelty marine life Japan

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It's a documentary about an annual Japanese dolphin hunt that occurs in the village of Taiji. Tags: oceans dolphin hunt Japan hunting We posted about "The Cove" a few months ago. It's gruesome, bloody and disturbing. It has just been screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Here is a glowing review from Joel Reynolds with the Natural Resources Defense Council. The review is on Huffington Post.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite my thrill about Desi identifying a gull we were still at sea and still without a whale, a dolphin, or any pelagic species. Though we had left Riis Landing at shortly after 1 PM and weren’t due back until 5 PM we were still without a single sighting of a whale, a dolphin, or much of anything by 4 PM. Then, out of nowhere, a shout, “Dolphins dead ahead!” Everyone rushed to the front of the boat and, sure enough, dolphins! Bottlenose Dolphins !

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Creature Talk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

It is a haunting, disturbing, thrilling, and often heartbreaking film about the dolphin trade and consequent slaughter in Japan. While it will probably make you cry if you are anything like me, it will also inspire you to see how passionate the dolphin advocates are about this issue. Tagged: animal advocacy, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, animal suffering, companion animals, dogs, dolphins, get involved, horses, humans, Michael Vick, The Cove.

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Critter News

MARCH 16, 2010

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary. Jacques Cousteau.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 19, 2015

cats dogs dolphins just for fun wildlifeRegardless of whether you’re hard of hearing or have perfect hearing (for a human), this infographic will show you that – whilst us humans are a talented bunch for the most part – our hearing doesn’t compare in the slightest … Continue reading → The post The Hearing Ranges of Animals appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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MAY 8, 2012

Or are the deaths of dolphins and seabirds in Peru caused by something more nefarious? Asides

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

From dolphins and dogs who are swimming buddies, playful cheetahs and puppies who are best friends, owls and kitties playing leapfrog and much more! Four hours of frolicking, friendly fun with unlikely duos – including a dog who swims for hours with his dolphin pal, a man who gives up eating poultry after befriending a goose, a house cat who has play dates with a barn owl, and a baboon who fosters a bush baby. Are you ready for hours of the cutest animal video ever?

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MAY 25, 2016

cats dogs dolphins elephants wildlifeHere’s a fun way to learn some new things about your favorite animals! Which facts did you already know? Were there any that were new to you? I thought it was very sweet about elephants sucking their trunks for comfort … Continue reading → The post 50 Amazing Animal Facts infographic appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 7, 2013

Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive day resort experience where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches. Orlando, Fla. August 6, 2013) – For the first time in SeaWorld’s history, a Cesarean section has been performed on a shark.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Dolphins appear to have saved a human from a shark. See here

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

Self-awareness, suffering and a social culture along with high mental abilities are a hallmark of cetaceans, an order grouping more than 80 whales, dolphins and porpoises, say marine biologists. From the AFP. As the future of whales once more comes under global debate, some scientists say the marine mammals are not only smarter than thought but also share several attributes once claimed as exclusively human.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Like forest creatures trying to escape a fire, marine animals such as dolphins, sharks, mullets, crabs, rays and fish are congregating in surprisingly shallow waters off the Florida coast line as they flee the encroaching oil spill. From ShortNews.com.literally, short, short news!

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2010

And what about the dead dolphin? But so far, it looks like the oil spill is not to blame. But why did 60 dead endangered turtles wash up over three weeks? Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. They also say low oxygen levels are common this time of year due to changes in temperature. Still, though, 60 sea turtles over 3 weeks?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

We had been floating, birding amidst a massive flock of shearwaters, surrounded by an aquatic city of Spinner Dolphins when Wilfredo spotted two small dark shearwaters flying away from the feeding flock. And it was full of Spinner Dolphins and birds. “That bird! Get it!

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Critter News

MARCH 13, 2010

People want to save the dolphins and the sea otters, but what about the bluefin tuna? We hear about the problem with charismatic land species. It's those species that either have a powerful personality or a cute face that endear people to them and garner news attention. Examples include panda bears, wolves, elephants, tigers, etc. It's easier to motivate people to save them as opposed to other species that are vital, but either boring or ugly. It's the same problem with marine life.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive experience in Orlando where guests can swim with dolphins, snorkel among tropical fish and interact with animals. It’s a boy! This little guy – a lesser anteater or tamandua – was born just days ago to mom, Cypress, at Discovery Cove, in Orlando, Florida. Tamanduas are native to the forests of Mexico to South America. They use their sharp claws and 16-inch-long tongue (41 cm) to eat up to 9,000 ants in a single day.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 3, 2013

And there are many kinds of animals to choose from, everything from birds, frogs and dolphins, to a variety of dog breeds. If you are looking for a wonderful gift for the animal lover in your life, visit The Magic Zoo. Each piece is handmade by artist Merry Rosenfield, and the variety of animals to choose from is truly amazing! For the first time, I was able to find a Maltese represented in “puppy cut” which is how we keep our sweet pup.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

For instance, dolphins don’t actually have the curative powers some claim they have (22); there’s no evidence that pet owners have different personalities than non pet owners (28); having to kill and cut up an animal does not stop one from eating meat (189); the majority of people who abused animals as children do not grow up to be violent (30); and 80% of serial killers do not have a known history of cruelty to animals (31).

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 10, 2018

Many believe they are just as smart as dolphins and apes. Many people don’t realize just how amazingly smart crows are. This infographic from Capital Garden Services looks at just how smart and it makes for a really interesting read. wildlife

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