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He next cites his experience with Denise Herzing, who compares to Jane Goodall but for Dolphins. She has spent the past thirty years out in see with over 300 different dolphins, studying and researching exactly how dolphins communicate with each other. In most instances people know that dolphins make clicking and chirping noises; what most people realize is that dolphins have specific noises they make dedicated to one another. Herzing over the decades of working with and recording dolphins has been able to have non-biased source, a scientist who did not realize what was being sent, confirm that there was a consistent and repeated dialogue between mother dolphins and their calves. After getting to know generation after generation of dolphins, Herzing can now play back a recording of a noise dedicated to one of the dolphins and essentially call them to her. She is now in the process …show more content…
In the review, One Offensive Loose End in ‘The Cove’, by Andrew Robulack, made in March of 2010, Robulack highly criticizes this point. He points out that it weakened the filmmakers’ argument when they went to interview the people of Tokyo and other major cities instead of those that actually live in Taiji. Robulack feels that there could be cultural food practices as well as traditions that filmmakers didn’t attempt to examine. I, however, bring up this point; are some traditions worth keeping? In both the United Kingdom and America, there used to be a tradition where we would fight dogs and other animals. This was something that we would take children to like we would football game. In recent years, we have banned this practice due to the suffering that it causes for the animals involved. I believe if a tradition causes extended suffering, and pain for a living creature than the tradition should be stopped. (Robulack,

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