Taiji Action Group (site) by Steven Thompson, TDAG Sept. 2, 2012 I got a telephone call today from a Japanese friend at the Cove today. Ric O'Barry and I showed the Cove (watch for free) at the home of our mutual friends in Taiji four years ago. We still have security issues for the Japanese. Violence is possible. My friend cannot easily contact Sea Shepherd or Save Japan Dolphin activists directly. The message to Cove Guardian, Melissa Sehgal, and Cove Monitor Tim Burns, is that the hunters are upset...he used the phrase "mecha okotteiru" (damn angry). The hunters get together at the Isana izakaya (bar) after their hands are clean. The media coverage...the heavy and constant police presence...the town meeting...Taiji will feel under siege for 6 months and today is just the second day. Activists around the world demonstrated in front of Japanese consulates and embassies. I hope he doesn't have a heart attack. Let's all write a letter every week to: 1. 2. Also consider writing to 3. Dolphins can be so forgiving.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute To promote and strengthen Panama’s standing as a world-class destination for scientific research, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has forged stronger collaborative ties with two of Panama’s leading research organizations. Earlier this month, STRI signed a collaboration agreement with the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies. Another agreement with the Institute for Scientific Research and Technology Services, or INDICASAT-AIP, is in the works. The agreements aim to maximize scientific effectiveness by sharing resources and facilities and fostering inter-institutional projects. “The idea was simple, really: to begin strengthening alliances among some of the leading institutions in order to better promote the development of sciences in Panama,” said William Wcislo, STRI’s acting director at the time of the events. Wcislo said he hopes collaborative agreements can also be formalized with universities and other organizations in Panama.
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MigraMar aquarium in Taiji 本日10月4日でスジイルカの「ホーク」が当館にやってきて2年がたちました。 非常に神経質で飼育が困難とされているスジイルカですが、現在はマリナリュウムでマダライルカとともに元気に暮らしています。 種目の訓練も進み、回転ダンスや握手などができるようになりました。特に得意なのはジャンプ！！ 上にぶつかってしまいそうなくらい高いジャンプができるんですよ！ そして、健康管理には欠かせない受診動作の訓練も進み、最近では体温測定が安定してできるようになり、先日初めて採血ができました！！ 採血結果も問題なし(o^-^o)初めは尾ビレどころか体にさえなかなか触らせてくれなかったのでとても大変だったようです。 マリナリュウムに引越ししてすぐはマダライルカたちから仲間外れにされていましたが、最近はすっかり仲良し♪胸ビレでお互いの体を触ったり、こすり合ったりしている姿はとても微笑ましいですよ。 スジイルカを飼育しているのは世界でくじらの博物館だけ。 Whale.org | Ocean Alliance Japan Whaling The Dolphin Institute - Dolphin Research Echolocation is the process of detecting and identifying objects by emitting sounds, such as the broadband clicks used by dolphins, and listening to the echoes returning from objects reflecting those sounds. A recent discovery we made is that dolphins appear capable of directly perceiving the shapes of objects through echolocation. Prior to this finding, it had been generally assumed that dolphins learned to identify and recognize objects through echolocation by a process of associative learning-by comparing the echoes returning from targets with the visual appearance of those targets. Instead, our work has shown that echolocation can yield an immediate perception of the shapes of objects without any intervention by associative learning. Click here to see a virtual reality VRML of the experimental setup of this study. Pack, A. Back to Top Dolphin Programs | Whale Programs | Education Programs | Our Research | Resource Guide Copyright © 2002, The Dolphin Institute
Beluga whale 'makes human-like sounds' 22 October 2012Last updated at 12:02 ET Beluga whales are known as "canaries of the sea" because of their frequent, high-pitched calls Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech. While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry. But researchers heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC make sounds octaves below normal, in clipped bursts. The first mystery, though, was figuring out where the sound was coming from. When a diver at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California surfaced saying, "Who told me to get out?" The whales are known as "canaries of the sea" for their high-pitched chirps, but while a number of anecdotal reports have described whales making human-like speech, none had ever been recorded. Once they identified NOC as the culprit, they caught it on tape. In short, the mimicry was no easy task for NOC.