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ChrestomatherIsabel hopes to do these surveys continuously over a year. After that she will have a complete and fairly exhaustive record of where the dolphins live and where…
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The whole point of the survey is to create very highly standardized measurements and recordings. In ‘On Effort’ periods, in Isabel’s survey, there are 2 observers on…
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Isabel’s survey is intended to establish, in a reliable way, the extent and limits of the dolphin habitat on the river. There are, Isabel said, no established techniques…
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All this while Isabel had been agonizing about what to do with the dog. In New Zealand he would have been put down of course, and she…
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When we turned into the hospital I had an extraordinarily vivid recollection of visits to upcountry Cambodian hospitals in Jan 1993. They were nothing more than jumbles of…
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January 7, 2003 Yesterday, as I was writing that last sentence, Isabel came running to the door, spattered with blood. ‘Amitav I’ve been attacked by my dog. I…
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Isabel was on her way to visit Clasico, on Nov 26, when she had a terrible accident. She was sitting side-saddle on the moped – which is the…