Denise L. Herzing
Autor(a) de Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas
About the Author
Dr. Denise L. Herzing is the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project, a founding member of the Marine Mammal Society, and a professor in biological sciences at Florida Atlantic University. She lives in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Image credit: Denise L. Herzing [credit: explore.org]
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- Nome padrão
- Herzing, Denise L.
- Outros nomes
- Herzing, D. L.
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Oregon State University
San Francisco State University
Union Institute Graduate School - Ocupação
- marine mammal scientist
research director - Organizações
- Wild Dolphin Project
Florida Atlantic University
Explorers Club
Lifeboat Foundation
American Cetacean Society
Schoolyard Films - Premiações
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
- Pequena biografia
- Denise L. Herzing, Ph.D. is Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She has completed 28 years of her long-term study of the Atlantic spotted dolphins inhabiting Bahamian waters. In 2008 Dr. Herzing received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also a fellow with the Explorers Club as well as a scientific advisor for the Lifeboat Foundation and the American Cetacean Society, and she is on the board of Schoolyard Films. In addition to many scientific articles, she is the author of The Wild Dolphin Project and Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas. Coverage of her work with the spotted dolphins has appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Ocean Realm and Sonar magazines. Her work has been featured in broadcasts on Nature, Discovery Channel, PBS, ABC, and BBC. [from page 314 of Extraterrestrial Altruism, published in 2014]
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- #316,248
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While there was fascinating information, like how females babysat youngsters belonging to others and how young dolphins were trained in proper dolphin behavior, there was also a lot of information about the author and her tribulations through the years. She compared her observing techniques to those of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Hmm!
One of the types of behavior we are shown over and over again is how the dolphins mounted others of the same or different gender, same or different age groups, even same or different species.
The book is presented chronologically, year by year, and like the author, I held my breath as she returned each year to see which of her dolphins were still around and what new additions had arrived.
She concludes her book with a rant about captive dolphins and the advent of swimming-with-dolphin facilities and eco-tourism invading dolphin habitat. (She hosted eco-tourists as a way to finance her study but that was acceptable?) I was a bit disgusted that after all the time she spent playing with, observing, and teaching dolphins, she tells the readers that they may not come near them. While I agree that dolphins are best left alone to survive on their own, I felt offended by this.
Eventually I found myself glancing over the sections that talked about her and concentrated more on the sections about the dolphins themselves. That's what I opened the book for.… (mais)