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The Dolphin Pod
by The Dolphin Pod
Join hosts Dr. Justin Gregg and Laura Teasdale as they talk with scientists and experts about everyone's favorite marine mammal: the dolphin. With a sprinkling of comedy to season the science, The Dolphin Pod is an enlightening and entertaining deep dive into the world of dolphin science. The Dolphin Pod is family-friendly, teen-approved podcast fun!
Episodes
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Anthropomorphism and dolphins (and other animals)
Kathleen, Kelly, and Justin discuss how animal behavior scientists deal with the cognitive bias of anthropomorphism; the attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals. But this conversation dives much deeper than that; using Justin's new book Humanish as a jumping off point, the trio...
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Killer whale research updates and future plans
Dive deep into the world of killer whale research on this episode of The Dolphin Pod! Justin Gregg, Kathleen Dudzinski, Manon Themelin, and Kelly Melillo-Sweeting take you behind the scenes of DCP's killer whale studies—from SeaWorld San Diego to the Canary Islands' Loro Parque, and soon to the...
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How do killer whales socialize when no one is watching?
The Dolphin Communication Project has a new paper in review titled "Association and social networks based on proximity and inter-individual interactions in a group of managed care killer whales" and we sat down with three of the co-authors to hear what it's all about: Kathleen Dudzinski, Heather...
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Kid questions! And answers!
In this special episode of The Dolphin Pod, Kelly and Justin sit down to answer a whole batch of awesome questions from kid listeners! We tackle questions like: Is a whale’s spine hard? Why do whales have blowholes? How long can whales stay underwater for? How high can dolphins jump out of the...
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24: Manon Themelin dives into the complexity of dolphin social relationships
An interview with DCP Research Associate Manon Themelin and DCP Director Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski. We learn how Manon got started researching dolphins and the exciting discoveries she's made. Manon's research into relationship quality (RQ) shows that the methods we apply to the study of ravens and...
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23: An interview with Jason Bruck
Justin interviews Jason Bruck, Assistant Professor of Biology at Stephen F. Austin State University. Jason is the head of the Bruck Integrative Biology Lab where he and his students study dolphin behavior and cognition. In this interview, Jason and Justin discuss: · how Jason got into the field ·...
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22: Dolphins are unexpectedly tolerant of outsiders
Dolphins are pretty strange when it comes to the way they treat strangers. Unlike most primates (including humans,) when two separate dolphin societies (including different species) share the same space, they can integrate their societies without any violence whatsoever. Find out how DCP...
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21: An informal chat with DCP royalty
A special podcast celebrating 20 years of The Dolphin Communication Project. In this episode, Justin and Laura interview DCP royalty: Kathleen Dudzinski and Kelly Melillo-Sweeting. Hear how DCP got started after Kathleen’s humble beginnings as a movie star, and how Kelly accidentally stumbled…
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20: Dolphins are all right(ies)
In the episode, Laura goes head-to-head with Kelly Melillo-Sweeting in a science quiz focused on a recently published article on lateral behavior in bottlenose dolphins. It’s going to be an uphill battle for poor Laura since Kelly is one of the authors of the article. Here's the article being...
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19: Dolphins in hot water
In the episode, Laura and Justin transform themselves into a pair of dolphins and explore the waters of Shark Bay, Australia to figure out what happened when a mysterious heatwave wreaked havoc on the local dolphin population. Rising ocean temperatures pose a serious threaten to marine species,...
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18: Dolphin Science Quiz: Laura vs. Laura
Dolphin Pod co-host Laura Teasdale thinks that she used to know more about dolphins when she was a kid. In this episode, she gets a chance to prove it! Our AI assistant DOLPH creates an 8-year-old clone of Laura for (old) Laura to go up against in a (rather challenging) dolphin science quiz! Who...
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16: The Lost Dolphins of Tenacatita
The primary article being discussed in this episode is: Ortega-Ortiz, Christian & Wonneberger, Elena & Martínez-Serrano, Ibiza & Kono-Martínez, Tadashi & Villegas Zurita, Francisco & M. Enríquez Paredes, Luis & Llamas González, Myriam & Olivos, Aramis & Liñán-Cabello, Marco & Gerardo...
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15: Timesharing dolphins
This episode features research from Morigenos – the Slovenian Marine Mammal Society. Learn more about their work at: https://www.morigenos.org/ The primary article being discussed is: Genov T., Centrih T., Kotnjek P., Hace A. 2019. Behavioural and temporal partitioning of dolphin social groups in...
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Relaunch Teaser for The Dolphin Pod
The Dolphin Pod is back! After a 10 year hiatus, everyone's favorite dolphin science podcast is back in action. This time around, Justin Gregg will be joined by a new co-host; the hilarious and ultra-talented actor, musician, and improviser Laura Teasdale. Justin and Laura will be discussing...
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Ship Strikes, Emie's questions, tools (Episode 13)
In this week's episode, we will focus our Science Spotlight on ship strikes, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll field questions about dolphin communication from eight year old Emie. File Download (17:58 min / 16.4 MB)
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The Dolphin Species Song (Episode 11)
We are proud to present The Dolphin Species Song File Download (03:40 min / 5.10 MB)
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Dolphin communication, cookie cutter sharks, dolphin news (Episode 10)
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin communication, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss cookie cutter sharks File Download (28:41 min / 40.35 MB)
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Dolphin personalities, dolphin mittens (flippers), dolphin news (Episode 9)
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin personalities, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss dolphin mittens File Download (33:39 min / 23.6 MB)
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Dolphins and whales in the Middle Ages, magnetite, dolphin news (Episode 8)
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphins and whales in the Middle Ages, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss magnetite File Download (27:03 min / 18.5 MB)
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Dolphin sleep behavior, dolphin teeth, dolphin news (Episode 7)
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on Dolphin Sleep, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss how you can tell how old a dolphin is by looking at its teeth File Download (40:41 min / 27.9 MB)
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The truth about Dolphin Assisted Therapy, pink dolphins, news (Episode 6)
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight Dolphin Assisted Therapy, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss pink dolphins File Download (42:04 min / 28.9 MB)
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The all new Dolphin Pod, Episode 5
In this week's episode, we will review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight humpack whale echolocation, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss Pelorus Jack File Download (10:02 min / 6.01 MB)
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The all new Dolphin Pod, Episode 4
In this week's episode, we will discuss how you can help conserve dolphin species, review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on the Amazon River dolphin, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss colorful dolphinss File Download (12:42 min / 8.73 MB)
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The all new Dolphin Pod, Episode 3
In this week's episode, we will discuss whale and dolphin watching with biologist Fabian Ritter, review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on dolphin buoyancy, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss hairy dolphins File Download (15:01 min / 10.3 MB)
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The all new Dolphin Pod, Episode 2
In this week's episode, we will talk with Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski about the upcoming conference on marine mammalogy in Cape Town, review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on a behavior known as Spy Hopping, and in our Kids' Science Quickie, we'll discuss...
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The all new Dolphin Pod, Episode 1
This is our first episode for the new and improved version of The Dolphin Pod. In this week’s episode, we will unveil the new dolphin pod format, review breaking Dolphin News from around the world, focus our Science Spotlight on the top 5 myths about dolphins, and in our new Kids’ Science…
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The Dolphin Pod Relaunch Coming Soon
Hello dolphin pod listeners. You may have noticed that episodes have not been released all that frequently in recent months. It's not because we here at the dolphin pod have lost interest – quite the contrary. We have been working on a brand new look and feel to the dolphin pod, together with an...
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Dolphin Vocalizations
Learn all about dolphin vocalizations and dolphin sounds in this week’s episode, featuring real audio recorded this summer from wild dolphins at our research field site at Mikura Island in Japan. Transcript :: Read a transcript of this episode DCP's 2007 Research :: Read about DCP's 2007 research...
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Dolphins get the point
You may recall from The Dolphin Pod episode titled “Herman's Dolphin Prodigies” that dolphins have proven themselves to be capable of understanding the human pointing gesture. Dr. Louis Herman and his research team have shown that dolphins, when given a pointing arm and finger gesture to indicate...
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Bubble Rings
Dolphins have been observed creating and playing with intricate bubble rings. Learn all about bubble ring play in dolphins in this week’s episode. Transcript :: Read a transcript of this episode Bubble Rings :: More about bubble rings Beluga Blows Bubble Ring :: Watch a beluga whale blow a bubble...
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Mikura Research 2007
In just a few days, the Dolphin Communication Project will begin our research on Mikura Island in Japan for our summer 2007 field season. The tiny, dormant volcanic island of Mikura lies 200 km south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The island is home to 300 human beings and about 180 Indo-Pacific...
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Narwhal Oceanographers
Today is Earth Day 2007. According to the Earth Day Network Web site, the focus of this year's Earth Day is “A Call for Action on Climate Change”. Climate change is a topic that is in the news a lot lately, but one rarely finds a connection between climate change and dolphins. However, there is…
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Scats and Dogs
This week's episode of The Dolphin Pod is not actually about dolphins, but this little gem was simply too precious to ignore. Learn all about some very special poop-sniffing dogs that are helping researchers to learn more about endangered whales in this week’s episode. Transcript :: Read a...
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Dolphin Antennas
Scientists think that dolphin's teeth aren't just for grabbing – a hypothesis that is gaining considerable support suggests that dolphin teeth might be used as an antenna. Not an antenna for picking up radio or television signals (dolphins probably aren't too bothered if they miss an episode or…
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Where does the word 'dolphin' come from?
In today's episode, we will shed light on the ancient history of the word ‘dolphin'. Transcript :: Read a transcript of this episode File Download (8:47 min / 8.1 MB)
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The Dolphin's Vestibular Sense
This week’s episode reveals how dolphins manage to spend their entire lives in an aquatic environment (an almost zero gravity environment) without ever getting seasick or dizzy. It’s all thanks to some important evolutionary changes to their vestibular sense – one of the most important, and often...
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Dolphin Eyeballs
If you are a regular listener to the Dolphin Pod, then you’ll be aware of the power and versatility of a dolphin’s echolocation system. If you are inclined to be jealous of the sensory systems of other animals, you could do worse than to envy dolphin biosonar. It is pretty cool stuff. At least…
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Fungie the Dingle Dolphin
This week's episode features a personal essay about my experiences of swimming with Fungie – the famous solitary dolphin who has been living near the town of Dingle on the west coast of Ireland. Stay tuned for future episodes about lone, sociable dolphins and the whale and dolphin watching…
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The narwhal's tusk
The narwhal is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable of all cetaceans thanks to their distinctive long tusks. Learn more about the narwhal’s tusks and what it is used for in this week’s episode. Transcript of this episode :: Read a transcript of this week's episode with web links Narwhal…
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The Year of the Dolphin
2007 is a year with major significance for dolphin enthusiasts as it has been officially declared the Year of the Dolphin! You might have heard about this in the news. But what on earth is the Year of the Dolphin all about, and who has the authority to declare such things? Learn all about the…
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Newsflash: Dolphin Blogosphere Expands
The dolphin blogosphere has been expanding in recent weeks. A brand new podcast has just been released by the Act for Dolphins campaign. This podcast focuses on the campaign to stop the slaughter of wild dolphins in Japanese waters. To subscribe to the podcast, visit actfordolphins.podomatic.com…
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Holiday Podcast
A special holiday greeting from The Dolphin Pod. File Download (2:19 min / 2.1 MB)
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Baiji Extinct!
In this week’s episode, we will discuss the baiji; a very special dolphin that has recently made its way into the news for all of the wrong reasons. Transcipt of this episode :: Read a transcript of this week's episode with weblinks The Baiji.org Foundation :: Learnmore about hte Baiji at the...
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Dolphins who need dolphins
Researchers at the Dolphin Communication Project get a lot of questions from the public about dolphin behavior, but one question above all the others has given us the biggest kick. And, sparked a rather interesting answer. The question, posed to us once by a young dolphin enthusiast, was ‘How do...
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Join hosts Dr. Justin Gregg and Laura Teasdale as they talk with scientists and experts about everyone's favorite marine mammal: the dolphin. With a sprinkling of comedy to season the science, The Dolphin Pod is an enlightening and entertaining deep dive into the world of dolphin science. The Dolphin Pod is family-friendly, teen-approved podcast fun!
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