Nadia’s Story

Posted on December 25, 2012 by WQ editor

Watch Nadia telling how being at WildQuest has changed her life and why she loves to come back again.

Dolphin Birth

Posted on December 22, 2012 by WQ editor

Watch this amazing video of a dolphin birth at Dolphin Quest in Hawaii. This is very touching even though the dolphin lives in captivity. See the floppy dorsal fin of the newborn!

Soul On Fire

Posted on December 20, 2012 by WQ editor

We are happy to share a chapter of Veit Lindau’s book “Soul on Fire” about his dolphin experience. He has been at WildQuest every summer for the last 12 year and has become a very dear friend to us. Enjoy the read.

If you like it you can order the English ebook on amazon.com or itunes. The German version is also available on amazon.com and on itunes.

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Robots Replace Dolphins

Posted on December 19, 2012 by WQ editor

The US navy is set to replace its team of mine-tracking dolphins with under-water robots, but reassignment rather than redundancy awaits the military pod. Naval programme of training sea mammals to tag mines, begun in the 1950s, will be phased out in favour of machines.

Dolphins and Crickets?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by WQ editor

Dolphins and crickets might have more in common than you think. A large group of insects that includes crickets and katydids is believed to share a hearing feature with toothed whales like dolphins, according to a new study. Read all about it.

Dolphin Mathematicians

Posted on December 8, 2012 by WQ editor

Read how dolphins use their clicks to find fish and how varying the amplitude of their clicks helps them to distinguish different objects. This techniques could help Human sonar operators to detect weak signals from sea mines in choppy, shallow waters.

Bimini Road

Posted on December 6, 2012 by WQ editor

The famous Bimini Road has a dedicated page on Wikipedia. Read all the facts and stories behind this outstanding formation at our doorstep. Out of our personal experience we can confirm that diving around the Road is very powerful and enchanting.

Dolphin Communication

Posted on December 4, 2012 by WQ editor

How far will dolphins go to relate to humans? Interesting read about the work of Denise L. Herzing who will launch a dolphin communication project in Bimini, Bahamas. Her goal is real-time two-way communication, in which dolphins take the initiative to interact with humans.