Read the inspiring story of two dolphins who were rescued from a filthy pool in Turkey and after a year of training released into the ocean. Fins crossed that they will adopt to their natural habitat.
The article also provides some video footage.
Wonderful footage of a dolphin birth shot in Marineland Antibes (France). The short video won the gold medal at the Underwater festival in Ilkirch near Strasbourg (France). Sad fact is that these are dolphins in captivity and everybody who encountered dolphins in the wild will know how wrong this feels.
Read about the fascinating behaviour a group of Bottlenose dolphins shows in Laguna, Brazil. A recent study was searching for clues on which basis the dolphins were forming this long-standing alliance with the local fishermen. Do marine mammals develop a kind of “culture”?
How can dolphins survive with big wounds after a shark attack? Why don’t they bleed to death? How do they heal without infections?
A very interesting article by Michael Zasloff, professor of surgery and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Thousands of dead or dying dolphins have washed ashore in Peru since January, a marine mystery potentially caused by a combination of stress, pollution and disease.
Read the report on Scientific American’s website.
A while back we found this mail in our inbox and we are more than happy to share it with you:
Greetings Amlas and Atmo,
It is me Michael who I don’t even know if you will remember; I cannot remember even when it was exactly that I visited you back in the late 90s, but the experience has always stayed with me. Continue reading
Check out the footage of the first sighting of an albino orca whale.
The first 2012 participants will arrive tomorrow to Bimini.
We’ve been working hard to get our boat DolphinQuest and our Retreat Center ready for the season. We are all very excited and looking forward to meet all the beautiful dolphin souls who will come to see us in Bimini to swim with the wild dolphins. Yahoo!
Love from Jwala, Atmo, Atosh, Amlas, Sudi, Tara, Vijan and Sukhama -
the WildQuest Dream Team
Hi everybody,
Time for reflection is always a good thing… especially at the end of the year and I was blessed to have much of it this off-season in December. Continue reading
The team has been out playing with the dolphins and ended up utterly dolphinzed! Check out the stunned and the speechless, the relaxed and the excited crowd – it happens to the best of us!