Macroscopic Markers of Dolphin Healing at Sea Linked to Immunity

Physical and histological details of unaided dolphin healing at sea show that dolphins do indeed feel pain, heal without infection, and exhibit prolonged inflammation. Remodeling takes years.

This brief video illustrates the main principles of dolphin healing at sea without medical intervention. Changes in wounds across the healing process, in this case shark bites, are based on known days of healing. 

An Ethology of Adjustment: Dolphins Stop Feeding but Continue Socializing in Construction-degraded Habitat

Eleven years of research on the impacts of bridge removal and replacement in prime dolphin habitat showed that dolphin numbers decreased significantly even as dolphins adapted to construction in two ways. 

Protecting Bottlenose Dolphins from Bridge Construction

Pictorial summary of 11 years of research

Staying alive: Long-term Success of Bottlenose Dolphin Interventions in Southwest Florida

When dolphins suffer at human hands, humans are mandated to render aid. This thorough review of human interventions shows that helping helps.

Why Dolphins Jump - A Picture Book of the Acrobats of the Sea

Bottlenose dolphin aerial behaviors provide a veritable Rosetta Stone of revelations into social behavior and negotiating relationships. 170 illustrated contexts

Secrets behind the Dolphin Smile - 25 Amazing Things Dolphins Do

This fascinting collection of true short stories about natural dolphin behavior at sea is a new chapter in the book of intelligence.

Neither Tool nor Toy: Grass-wearing Behavior among Free-ranging Bottlenose Dolphins in Western Florida

This report provides the first evidence of a community of dolphins whose members self-adorn or self-decorate when greeting new dolphins.

Sex Differences in Bottlenose Dolphin Sightings during a Long-term Bridge Construction Project

Male and female dolphins respond very differently to habitat changes brought on by coastal construction.

Clinical Biostatistics and Epidemiology Made Ridiculously Simple

This is an easily-digestible stats text for busy medical students and medical personnel

Good-natured Statistics in Everyday Language with Animal Behavior

If you or someone you know needs to learn stats and like animals, this user-friendly text is THE book! 

Methodology chapter on writing ethograms

Animals in Myth and Lore

Response to Social Challenge in Young Bonnet (Macaca radiata) and Pigtail (Macaca nemestrina) Macaques is Related to Early Maternal Experiences

Conflict and Reconcilation in Captive Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

This report presents evidence that male and female dolphins apologize after their conflicts. Moreover, they reconcile their conflicts at rates comparable to primates with the highest levels of peacemaking.

Mother-offspring Relationship as a Template in Social Development: Reconcilation in Captive Brown Capuchins (Cebus apella)

This report presents evidence that learning to apologize (to reconcile) stems from the quality of the mother-infant relationship. It can be explained as the combination of peacmaking, attachment, and psychobiological attunement theories.

Index of Relationship Quality Based on Attachment Theory

This report provides a numeric approach to quantifying and comparing relationships based on two universals of relationships

Development of Reconcilation in Brown Capuchins (Summary)

Ethogram of the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with Special Reference to Social and Solitary Dolphins: Illustrated dictionary of free-ranging dolphin behaviors in 12 categories

 Bonobo Infant Development in the First Year