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Rocky

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A sub-adult Risso 's dolphin was found off Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware in the act of beaching, a mysterious phenomenon in which marine mammals seem to commit suicide by stranding themselves on land. The Riverhead rehabilitation team provided 24 hours medical treatment and tube feeding, due to which the dolphin began to regain health and thus was named Rocky for being a survivor and a fighter.

Author: Goldstein, Howard
Publisher: Wildlife Conservation Society
Publication Name: Wildlife Conservation
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1048-4949
Year: 2005
Environmental aspects, Protection and preservation, Dolphins, Dolphins (Mammals), Delphinidae

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New life on the Mississippi

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The new life, originating at the Mississippi River from the headwaters to the delta is outlined. The Mississippi's north-south flow is crucial for North American biodiversity, allowing lineages of now-rare fish from the age of dinosaurs to survive.

Author: Mlot, Christine
Publisher: Nature Conservancy
Publication Name: Nature Conservancy
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-5200
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Biological diversity conservation, Biodiversity conservation

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Smiles all round: Can research buy you happiness?

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Researchers and policy-makers are focusing on the scientific analysis of happiness and the methods to enhance it. It is suggested that a better understanding of happiness might eventually improve the chance of people attaining it.

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
Analysis, Happiness, Emotional conditioning

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