http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 02:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-37358 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:37:35 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-37358 [...] as I’m sure you know, are well-known for their complex communication system.  Like human fingerprints, each dolphin’s whistle is [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32245 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:13:40 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-32245 Congratulations to my colleague Denise Herzing. Not only is she stretching the boundaries of what we try to learn about dolphins and other cetaceans, but she is doing something many other dolphin researchers are not – studying her subjects on their own terms in their natural habitat. So many dolphin scientists cling to the idea that dolphins and other cetaceans should be understood in the context of sterile and constrained artificial tanks. Perhaps there is little substitute for the methodological control one achieves in captivity but there is no substitute for the external validity and uncompromised ethics of respectful studies with wild dolphins. We should seek to understand who dolphins are – but means do not justify ends. Of course, at some point there will be no dolphins in captivity to study because they die often and young from the stresses of confinement. So either captive studies on dolphins and other cetaceans will be transformed into a workable research paradigm for studies of wild dolphins or the issue for those who refuse to give up the practice of dolphin exploitation will be decided for them.

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32213 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:40:58 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-32213 [...] the disappearance of the interface can go. Another speaker, marine biologist Denise Herzing, presented on her efforts to improve dolphin-to-human communication through wearable computers that decipher [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32210 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:22:21 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-32210 [...] the disappearance of the interface can go. Another speaker, marine biologist Denise Herzing, presented on her efforts to improve dolphin-to-human communication through wearable computers that decipher [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32137 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:48:43 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-32137 [...] Through this keyboard, the dolphins learned to perform activities on demand, and also to express their desire for them. (Also see Denise Herzing’s talk.) [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32089 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:22:35 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-32089 [...] to express their desire for them. (For more on how a similar dolphin keyboard works, read up on Denise Herzing’s talk from earlier [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-language-of-dolphins-denise-herzing-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-31820 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:32:18 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70409#comment-31820 [...] to express their desire for them. (For more on how a similar dolphin keyboard works, read up on Denise Herzing’s talk from earlier [...]

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