The Dolphin Pod

The Dolphin Pod
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The Dolphin Pod

Join hosts Dr. Justin Gregg and Laura Teasdale as they talk with scientists and experts about everyone's favorite marine mammal: the dolphin. With a sprinkling of comedy to season the science, The Dolphin Pod is an enlightening and entertaining deep dive into the world of dolphin science. The Dolphin Pod is family-friendly, teen-approved podcast fun!

  1. Manon Themelin dives into the complexity of dolphin social relationships

    06/19/2023

    Manon Themelin dives into the complexity of dolphin social relationships

    An interview with DCP Research Associate Manon Themelin and DCP Director Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski.  We learn how Manon got started researching dolphins and the exciting discoveries she's made. Manon's research into relationship quality (RQ) shows that the methods we apply to the study of ravens and chimpanzees works just as well for dolphins, albeit with some minor tweaks to accommodate for dolphins' aquatic lifestyle and peculiar ways of socializing. Also, it turns out that the positions dolphin adopt when swimming next to each other and how they navigate each others' slipstreams can tell us a lot about the relationships between individual dolphins.

    44 min
  2. An interview with Jason Bruck

    04/12/2023

    An interview with Jason Bruck

    Justin interviews Jason Bruck, Assistant Professor of Biology at Stephen F. Austin State University. Jason is the head of the Bruck Integrative Biology Lab where he and his students study dolphin behavior and cognition.

    58 min
  3. Dolphins are unexpectedly tolerant of outsiders

    11/01/2022

    Dolphins are unexpectedly tolerant of outsiders

    Dolphins are pretty strange when it comes to the way they treat strangers. Unlike most primates (including humans) two completely different social groups - including different species - are able to integrate their societies without any violence whatsoever. Find out how DCP researchers Kelly Melillo-Sweeting and Nicole Danaher-Garcia discovered that the spotted dolphins living around Bimini are able to live peacefully alongside bottlenose dolphins AND how these Bimini spotted welcomed a group of four dozen "refugee" spotted dolphins into their society without batting an eye.

    1h 14m
  4. An informal chat with DCP royalty

    09/17/2020

    An informal chat with DCP royalty

    Kathleen and Kelly go on a Tinder date with Laura to learn about DCP’s history.

    50 min
  5. Dolphins are all right(ies)

    03/20/2020

    Dolphins are all right(ies)

    In this special podcast episode celebrating 20 years of the Dolphin Communication Project, Laura and Justin interview Kelly Melillo-Sweeting, Bimini Research Manager and all-around awesome scientist. Kel explains the findings form her recently published article on laterality in bottlenose dolphins – that is, a preference that dolphins seem to have for the right side of their bodies when hunting for prey in the sand. Just before dolphins stick their heads in the sand to grab hidden prey, they almost always twist to the left, maybe allowing them to use their right eye (i.e., their preferred eye) to give the ocean floor one last look before plunging their faces into it. Or maybe it’s because dolphin echolocation works best on the right side when it comes to searching for prey buried in the sand. Whatever the reason, the bottlenose dolphins off Bimini, The Bahamas are almost all (with one exception) left twisters when crater feeding.

    33 min
  6. Dolphins in hot water

    05/01/2019

    Dolphins in hot water

    Climate change poses a real threat to dolphin species across the globe. In this episode, we discuss a heatwave off the coast of Australia that appears to have killed a number of wild dolphins in Shark Bay.

    20 min
  7. Dolphin Science Quiz: Laura vs. Laura

    03/08/2019

    Dolphin Science Quiz: Laura vs. Laura

    It's old Laura vs. young Laura to see who knows the most dolphin trivia!

    25 min
  8. The Lost Dolphins of Tenacatita

    01/23/2019

    The Lost Dolphins of Tenacatita

    When Hurricane Jova hit the west coast of Mexico in 2011, a group of dolphins living near Tenacatita Bay disappeared! Where did they go and what happened to them? And did they ever return? Find out in this week’s episode.

    25 min
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About

Join hosts Dr. Justin Gregg and Laura Teasdale as they talk with scientists and experts about everyone's favorite marine mammal: the dolphin. With a sprinkling of comedy to season the science, The Dolphin Pod is an enlightening and entertaining deep dive into the world of dolphin science. The Dolphin Pod is family-friendly, teen-approved podcast fun!

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  • Creator
    The Dolphin Pod
  • Years Active
    2006 - 2023
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dolphin Communication Project
  • Show Website
    The Dolphin Pod

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