The world's longest-running study of a wild dolphin population, the Sarasota effort has sighted and recorded more than 5,750 dolphins and made the shallow waters of Sarasota Bay a living laboratory for 53 years.
Among the program's key findings: The individual dolphins here live in specific "neighborhoods" generation after generation, forming a mosaic of adjacent communities along Florida's west coast. Many males forge buddy pairs for protection and stay together for life.
Research has shown that, while they are highly intelligent, they have sensory systems very differen...
People viewed them as "humans in wet suits." - Randy Wells, director of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program
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