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A mutual advantage from protecting dolphin friends

Man's enduring fascination with dolphins traces a line way back into antiquity when the first fishermen encountered this prince of the seas.

In 62AD, the Greek moralist Plutarch wrote: "To the dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage."

Through the ages, these fellow-fishermen belonging to the cetacean family have held our attention for their grace, intelligence and human-like intuition. It is as if our fascination with them is matched by their own curiosity about us.

However, despite our interest, we know surprisingly little about how they behave or even how many of them live off our coast.

That is where a team from the ...

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