Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seem like an aquatic mirror of mankind. In recent decades, we have learned that dolphins recognize themselves in reflections, count, grieve, adorn themselves, feel despondent, rescue one another (and humans), deduce, infer, seduce, form cliques, throw tantrums, and call themselves by name....

Text and color photographs describe the lives of dolphins in oceanariums where some of them are trained to perform in shows.

Questions and answers present information on dolphins, including their physical characteristics, their behavior, and their conservation.

This revised edition surveys key aspects of dolphins, describing the leaping mammals' appearance, behaviors, and habitats. A folk tale explains why these creatures are friendly toward humans.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habitats, life cycle, and eating habits of dolphins.

Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to bottlenose dolphins.