his summer marked our 30th field season in the Bahamas studying the Atlantic spotted dolphins. Yes, it is hard to believe we have spent three decades in

the field! Continuity in fieldwork has been one of our strengths and has allowed us to follow individual dolphin life histories over these decades.

Another one of our strengths is the work of our graduate students. We have included write-ups on some of our current students so you can see their projects. Our internship program also continues to be a success. Training the next generation of scientists is critical and we are thrilled to have such energetic young minds onboard.

Probably the biggest change in our work is the recent distribu-tion change of part of our resident dolphin community. Still a mystery, many of our spotted dolphins have migrated to a new area and we continue to document this shocking shift in their lives. Whether due to climate change, habitat deterioration, or some other non-disclosed cause, we continue to track these same individuals to resolve the mystery.

The Wild Dolphin Project remains a lean, mean research machine. Thanks to all our very loyal supporters, members, and foundations. And as a special thank you for all renewed

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memberships WDP will now be including a copy of our own book “The Wild Dolphin Project” with each member-ship. Our way of saying thank you (and not a bad idea for Holiday presents)! And check out our newly updated member perks!

We remain committed to following the lives of this incredible community of wild dolphins and telling their story through science and public education.

Dr. Denise HerzingFounder and Research Director, Wild Dolphin Project

Table of Contents

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memberships WDP will now be including a copy of our own book “The Wild Dolphin Project” with each member

SUMMER 2014 – OUR 30-YEAR MARK!

Summer 2014 – Our 30-Year Mark ................................................................1CHAT: Is It a Dolphin Translator Or An Interface? ..............................................2Ship Store .......................................................................................................2Giving Through EarthShare ..............................................................................2Life in a Dolphin Pod .......................................................................................32014 Field Season Internship ...........................................................................42015 Field Season ...........................................................................................4End Of The Year Giving ...................................................................................5More Ways to Help WDP .................................................................................5New Graduate Students ...................................................................................6WDP Wish List.................................................................................................6New WDP Membership Perks ..........................................................................7Annual Membership ........................................................................................8

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call it a human/dolphin inter-face or acoustic keyboard. The word ‘translator” con-

jures up images of some magical device that somehow utilizes some universally discovered patterns and translates words to the awaiting humans, something like the babble fish for those that follow science fic-tion. Nothing could be further from the truth.

CHAT (Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry) is an underwater com-puter designed by Dr. Thad Starner and his team at Georgia Tech. CHAT receives sounds via two hydrophones, and produces sounds through an underwater speaker. The Wild Dolphin Project, under the direction of Dr. Denise Herzing and with the help of colleagues Dr. Adam Pack and Dr. Fabienne Delfour, cre-ated a few basic artificial sounds, specifically whistles (outside of the dolphins natural repertoire) to label a few play objects (Sargassum – a natural play toy, scarf, and rope – toys that humans bring in the water).

From past studies we know that dol-phins can easily mimic whistles, both in captivity and sometimes sponta-neously in the wild. We also know that dolphins can learn to associate sounds (whistles) with objects. The hallmark of referential communication is to talk about, or refer to, something out of time or space by labeling it. Chimpanzee researchers used a physical keyboard to rep-resent words that allowed Kanzi to see visual images and trigger the keyboard by touching. Alex, the African Grey

Parrot, could both see objects and use English words to communicate (since parrots have the vocal ability to mimic words). Specially trained ser-vice dogs can now use bite plates and other mouth-able devices to commu-nicate back to their humans in some detail (FIDO project).

But how do you create a tool that is dolphin friendly? It is difficult and no doubt one of the reasons that we haven’t had much progress using these tools with dolphins, the inter-faces simply have not been very dolphin friendly. Dolphins, like chim-panzees, don’t have the ability to pro-duce detailed human words like Alex. And unlike chimpanzees, dolphins don’t have primate-like appendages to touch a keyboard. Well, they have their rostrums that they can use in captivity to trigger a keyboard, but in the wild they do not normally touch strange objects. In the late 1990’s the Epcot Center in Orlando had the first underwater keyboard that humans and dolphins used together, semi suc-cessfully, although the work has yet to be published in detail.

What dolphins CAN do in the wild is mimic sounds, and we are banking on their ability to mimic sounds from CHAT and learn the functional use of these whistle mimics when interacting

with researchers in the water. And we know that dolphins have names called signature whistles, which essentially are a label for an individual and can be thought of as an example of a referential signal. They can also call their friend over by their name, or whistle.

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CHAT: IS IT A DOLPHIN TRANSLATOR OR AN INTERFACE?

TWO BOOKS AVAILABLEBY DR. HERZING

Purchase both for $40

Books can be signed by Dr. Herzing upon request. Please visit our Ship Store on our website for more information and other merchandise, or contact our office by phone or email.

WDP NOW ACCEPTS AMERICAN EXPRESS!You can now purchase WDP products and membership using your American Express card! We are now accepting American Express for all merchandise, memberships, and donations.

Please visit our Ship Store on our website for more details.

GIVING THROUGH EARTHSHARE

When You Give Through The EarthShare CFC, YOU Make It Possible!

Federal and Military employees can take advantage of one of the most effective and efficient ways to sup-port the important work of the Wild Dolphin Project by donating through the EarthShare Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). We count on your gifts to support our ongoing research, as well as enabling us to learn more about the dolphins and their environment in which they

live. Donating through the CFC will allow us to gain more knowledge, bet-ter equipping us to help protect them In Their World…On Their Terms. Please join the effort to support our ongoing research by designating your EarthShare CFC gift to #69488 when you make your pledge. Just a small amount each pay period can make a world of difference to our research. For more information about EarthShare and the Wild Dolphin Project in the CFC, please visit: www.earthshare.org/cfc.html

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By: Dr. Denise Herzing

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LIFE IN A DOLPHIN POD

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he pod or “community” of spotted dolphins in the Bahamas is around

100 individuals, Big Gash, Romeo, Mugsy, Nassau, Caroh, Bonito…to name a few. But what exactly is a dolphin pod and what does it mean to be in a pod? Do all the animals stay together all the time? Who swims with whom? Luckily, Dr. Herzing and some of her for-mer graduate students have answered some of these ques-tions.

The 100 spotted dolphins in this pod are not together all of the time. The community breaks up into smaller groups, and the membership of these smaller groups fluctuates. This is called a fission-fusion society, seen in other animals like chimpanzees and bottlenose dolphins. We come across dolphin groups ranging from 2-40 animals. In these smaller groups, there are patterns of associations, typi-cally correlated with sex, age, reproductive status, and kinship (or relatedness). In fact, males and females have very different patterns of association.

Individual males will often form strong associations, which can last a lifetime, in other words a “best friend.” In the scientific community, this is called an alliance. Often times, two or more alliances with indi-viduals around the same age will group together, called a coalition. In our community, Mystery and Poindexter are a strong male alliance and almost always seen with each other. When they are in a larger group, they are usually surrounded by their coalition members, including Linus, Kai, Malibu, and Lhasa.

So why does a male dolphin have a best friend? Why form an alli-ance or a coalition? The answer is seemingly simple: females and fighting. Male coalitions have been shown to monopo-lize females. Another benefit to having an alliance is to increase chances of success during aggres-sive encounters with the much larger bottlenose dolphins. It takes about 6 spotted dolphins to chase away 1 bottlenose dolphin.

The association for female soci-ality centers on the mother/calf relationship and the successful rearing of their young. The moth-er/calf association is the strongest found in most dolphin societies. This is expected, as calves are highly dependent on their moth-ers. After that, female associa-tions are centered on reproduc-tive status and relatedness. For example, females with calves tend to associate with other females who have calves, which suggest social learning (sort of like female humans). Juvenile females, such as older offspring, will also hang out with their mothers who have new calves. This is because they gain experience and practice by “babysitting.” For example, Palette is a juvenile female often seen with her older sister, Brush who has a new male calf (Brat).

Dolphin societies are complex and dynamic. While there are general patterns, there is always more to document and learn. That is why it is crucial to get out there every summer and document the individuals in each group!

Check out our blog (http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/blog/) for more dolphin articles.

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ver the past few years, the Wild Dolphin Project started taking student interns onboard R/V Stenella. This internship, generously supported by the Don-

ald Slavik Family Foundation, is primarily designed to expose students to fieldwork, while allowing them to assist WDP graduate students and research assistants with data entry and photo-identification (additional information on the internship can be found on our website, www.wilddol-phinproject.org).

Our interns come from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience. Some are college students studying marine biology, others are high school students exploring a poten-tial interest in the field or wanting to try something totally different. In any case, it is an invaluable experience. This year, we had three student interns from very different back-grounds that provided comments about their internship experience. Liah McPherson is a high school student from North Carolina, Shauna Niemeier is a first-year nursing student at Columbia University School of Nursing, and Jes-sica Stuczynski is a biology student at Kent State University.

“Interning with the Wild Dolphin Project was an incredible experience. From taking photographs and identifying the dolphins during our encounters, to reviewing and studying the video footage we collected at the end of the day, there was always something new to do and learn. Simply know-ing we were playing a small part in Dr. Herzing’s work was rewarding,” states Shauna. As someone who has always been interested in studying marine mammals, Jessica was thrilled to observe the spotted social behavior in the wild, describing it as “breathtaking and incredible.” If students have cameras, they can bring them in the water (or borrow one of ours) to practice taking photo-identification shots. Later that evening they can work on identifying the dol-phins in their shots, with the help of the research assistants and graduate students on board.

This year graduate students Nate Skrzypczak and Alyson Myers presented their thesis research onboard. Nate is studying individual personality in spotted dolphins while Alyson is studying synchrony in males during aggres-sion. These talks give interns a chance to see the different types of graduate student projects. After these talks, there is often open discussion on what it is like to be a graduate student, the application process, conducting research, etc.

Liah, Shauna, and Jessica learned a lot about spotted dolphin behavior and data collection, but there is more to it than that. Despite being both physically and men-

tally exhausting, life in the field is like nothing else. Away from cell phones, television, traffic, and noise, sometimes the most memorable experiences (after the dolphins) are those shared with the other people on board. “Observ-ing dolphins in their world was a life changing experience; but perhaps the most (pleasantly) surprising part of my internship with the Wild Dolphin Project was the incredible conversations I shared with some of the most unforget-table people. The friendships I made during our ten-day long journey are some of the truest, and I look forward to staying in contact with, and supporting, the Wild Dolphin Project for many years to come,” states Shauna. Liah states that “living on R/V Stenella for just ten days introduced me to these incredible dolphins and equally incredible humans. I am beyond privileged to have had such an amazing opportunity.”

We have had so many great interns over the past couple of years, and hope to see them again and look forward to hearing about all their future endeavors!

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SUMMER 2015 FIELD SCHEDULE:May through September

Please check out our website at www.wilddolphinproject.org for information on trip dates and internship details under the “Participate” tab. Feel free to contact us by email at fieldwork@wilddolphinproject.org or call our field office at 561-575-5660.

Left to right: Liah McPherson and Shauna Niemeier, 2014 interns, Liah McPherson and Shauna Niemeier.

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CHAT: IS IT A DOLPHIN TRANSLATOR OR AN INTERFACE? (continued from page 2)

When CHAT is in the water it has a small set of pre-programmed sounds that it can recognize. Each of these sounds (whistles) goes out into the water as a whistle and into the diver’s ear as a word (in a male voice). Since humans are not good at discriminating between whistles in the water, this is to clarify to the diver which sound they sent out. And when an incoming signal matches one of the “whistle words” programmed in the computer, the diver also hears an English word (in a female voice). This is the only “translation” that happens…from computer whistle to human word, mostly for the convenience and accuracy of diver response.

Over the last 2 field seasons we have seen some interest-ing attempts by the dolphins to interact with the system. In 2013, a dolphin whistle triggered the word “sargassum” in my bone-conducting headphone, meaning essentially that the computer system heard and recognized the incoming whistle for sargassum and was triggered to say the word “sargassum” in my ear. Since there was not, at this time, a second CHAT box in the water the only explanation is that a dolphin made the whistle that triggered the word in my ear. Again, this is not to say that a dolphin knew what it was saying when it put out this whistle. It may simply be that

the dolphin was mimicking this whistle or that the computer heard a close approximation to “sargassum” and triggered, or it was a false trigger. We are still reviewing our data from the summer of 2014 and there are a lot of interesting things happening with dolphin mimics that we hope to publish soon. So, as we approach the summer of 2015 our priority is to increase “our” hearing and production range into the ultrasonic frequencies via the computer, and spend more time in the water exposing the dolphins to a few of these signals and see what they might do.

Perhaps the dolphins will do nothing. Perhaps the dolphins will mimic a few times and go chase a fish. Perhaps the dolphins will observe how humans use these whistles between each other to request a fun object and then join in the game by requesting the object using the whistle. This action would give us an indication of their interest and func-tional understanding. To mimic a whistle is not the same as functionally understanding how a sound can be used to communicate. But it’s a start.

Spoiler Alert: Stay tuned for the National Geographic Magazine article on Dolphin Intelligence….Sometime in 2015.

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request the donation from your brokerage firm and ask them to deliver the stock via DTC. Call Wild Dolphin Project at 561-575-5660 for the Morgan Stanley DTC number and our account number. If your shares are being moved within the Morgan Stanley group, email the Wild Dolphin Project at info@wilddolphinproject.org and we will email a PDF form and then you can authorize a one-time internal securities journal.

MORE WAYS TO HELP WDP

Workplace GivingThank you to everyone that has supported the Wild Dolphin Project through workplace giving like Earthshare from 2013-2014! To learn more information about workplace giving through EarthShare, please visit: http://www.earthshare.org/who-we-support.html or www.earthshare.org/cfc.html.

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NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS

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n the Fall of 2013, Alyson Myers, Nate Skrzypczak, and Cassie Volker all joined the Wild Dolphin Project team as new graduate students at Florida

Atlantic University. While they all came to Wild Dolphin Project because of their shared interest in animal behavior, they have very different backgrounds!

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Cassie Volker is far from home. Cassie came to FAU straight out of her undergradu-ate degree at Northern Kentucky University. She earned her B.S. in Biology and also completed an undergraduate research project with Dr. Lindsey Walters on parental care behavior in the Carolina Chickadee. Her research earned her the John W. Thieret Undergraduate Research Award, which is designed to recognize a graduate senior, Biology Major, who has done original research of publishable quality in the biological sciences. In fact, Cassie has turned her undergraduate research into a first-author manuscript, titled “Male Carolina Chickades Provide More Parental Care” in Papers and Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2, Article 15.

For her graduate work, Cassie is researching the aggres-sive behavior in the Atlantic spotted dolphins. She hopes to determine if the spotted dolphins are using different behavior to communicate aggressively when they fight each other versus when they fight the resident (and much larger) bottlenose dolphin. During the summer you can find her out in the Bahamas as a Research Assistant help-ing Dr. Herzing and WDP staff to collect underwater behav-ioral data. Over winter, she is land-based as a Teaching Assistant with FAU, teaching Anatomy and Physiology labs to undergraduates. She also likes to play soccer and watch football and basketball.

As a Bahamian, Alyson Myers comes to FAU a little closer from home. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from FAU, and is a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology. She is now working on her master’s thesis with Dr. Herzing and Dr. Bjorklund studying synchrony in adult male Atlantic spotted dolphins during aggression. This work will lay the foundation for her Ph.D. research, studying the development of this synchronous behavior in juvenile spotted dolphins. Alyson is at home in the water, which makes her a great addition on board the R/V Stenella. She is a certified scuba diver and accomplished sailor. She has competed in a number of sailing regattas including the Sunfish World Championships, Central American and Caribbean Games, Snipe Western Hemisphere and Orient Championships, and the ISAF Youth World Sailing Championship. When she isn’t playing in the water, she is a Teaching Assistant at FAU in the Psychology Department. Nate Skrzypczak (pronounced “Scrippcheck for all those who are curious) has a less traditional background for a graduate student in Biological Sciences. He com-

Left to right: All graduate students aboard the R/V Stenella; Nate Skrzypczak and Cassie Volker; Alyson Myers

Ipleted a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy at UCLA, and then went on to earn a Master of Arts in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His thesis was on environmen-tal ethics specifically with regard to the human-centered way we treat the rest of the world. After graduate school, Nate taught Philosophy as an Adjunct professor at Gavilan College in Gilroy, California, for a year before joining the graduate program at FAU.

Nate came to work with Dr. Herzing primarily because of the project’s long-term goals of opening up lines of communica-tion with an intelligent, social, communicative species. His thesis research is on personality differences in juvenile spotted dolphins, with an emphasis on discovering if different personal-ity types make certain individuals more “prone” to be curious towards interacting with humans. He believes that finding ways to communicate with a non-human sentient being can pro-foundly affect how we interact with the environment, as many people may act less human-centric if they know we are not the only thinking minds on the planet. When not in the field, Nate teaches Anatomy and Physiology labs to undergraduates, runs marathons, and watches Game of Thrones.

Stay tuned as they progress on their research!

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THE WILD DOLPHIN PROJECT Board of Directors Denise Herzing, Ph.D. Ivi Kimmel Drew Mayer Ruth Petzold Farley RentschlerAxel Stepan Christopher Traughber, M.D.

Project Staff Denise Herzing, Ph.D., Research Director Bethany Augliere, M.S., Research Assistant Kelly Hall, Administrative AssistantMichelle Green, Ph.D., Research Associate Cindy Elliser, Ph.D., Research Associate

Community Advisory Board Barbara Birdsey Tanya Burnett C. Wolcott Henry Kurt Jambretz Susan Lovejoy Bill O’Donnell Zita Wright Scientific Advisory Board Sir David Attenborough Randall Brelsford, Ph.D. Fabienne Delfour, Ph.D. Christine Johnson, Ph.D Stan Kuczaj, Ph.D. Marc Lammers, Ph.D. Adam Pack, Ph.D. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D. Thomas I. White, Ph.D.

Emeritus Board Anne Earhart, Ph.D. (hc) Diane Ross Linda Castell, D.V.M.

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In This IssueSummer 2014 – Our 30-Year Mark

CHAT: Is It a Dolphin Translator Or An Interface?

Ship Store

Giving Through EarthShare

Life in a Dolphin Pod

2014 Field Season Internship

2015 Field Season

End Of The Year Giving

More Ways to Help WDP

New Graduate Students

WDP Wish List

New WDP Membership Perks

Annual Membership

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