Man and DolphinAdventure on a new scientific frontier-- experiments attempting to establish communication with another species. Dr. Lilly's research at Marineland, Florida has led to the discovery of the dolphin's amazing ability to mimic certain human conversational sounds. |
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Contents
The Possibilities of Interspecies Communication | 16 |
My Experiences with a Whale | 40 |
My First Experiments with Dolphins | 48 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Man and Dolphin Collection of Jamie and Michael Kassler Volume 11 of Worlds of science |
| Author | John Cunningham Lilly |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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