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Symbiotic relationship between man and dolphins

Authors

Busnel, R. G.

Year

1973

Secondary Title

Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volume

35

Pages

113-131

Keywords

atlantic humpback dolphin, sousa teuszii, mauritania, West Africa, fisheries

Abstract

This is the English translation of a paper talking about mutually beneficial intereactions between fishers and dolphins also cites an example from Mauritania – cited by Pliny, in which dolphins help fishermen to catch mullet.