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Contributed by: Penny Sheltz on 5/10/2008

The Loggerhead Marinelife Center had its final lecture of the season Thursday and Denise Herzing presented The Wild Dolphin Project.
Denise Herzing, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and research director/founder of the Wild Dolphin Project spoke about the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin and the Bottle Nose Dolphin.
The Wild Dolphin Project is a scientific research organization that studies and reports on a specific pod of free-ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins. Objectives of this long-term, non-invasive field research are to gather information on the natural history of these dolphins, including behaviors, social structure, communication, and habitat; and to report what they have learned to the scientific community and the general public.
The Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), founded by Dr. Denise Herzing in 1985, is engaged in a long-term scientific study of a specific pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins that live 40 miles off the coast of the Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean.
For about 100 days each year, Phase I research has involved the photographing, videotaping, and audiotaping of a group of resident dolphins, aiming to learn about their lives.
The rest of the year is spent in the laboratory in Jupiter, Florida, archiving the information that has been gathered during the field season. WDP has now accumulated unprecedented amounts of baseline data about these dolphins, their relationships with other dolphins, and their daily lives in the ocean.

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