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ChrestomatherJanuary 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…
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Clasico’s story: In June-July 2001 a group of dolphins was seen about 40 kms from Phnom Penh in the floodplains. Phnom Penh, 1993 …
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Almost nothing is known of the parental and mating behaviour of orcaella. There are only speculations based on what is known of other species, particularly Tursiops which have…
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The dolphins keep surfacing all around us, as we drift in the water here at Chroy Banteay, but always unpredictably. At 11 am it is very hot,…
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April-May is the height of the dry season and in those months the rivers fall. The topography of the river is very scattered here – there are…
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The dolphin pools have very distinctive shapes and the dolphins seem to dislike certain kinds of underwater topography. Isabel and her associates take regular soundings of the…
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While speaking of Pilleri’s experiments with Indus dolphins (the animals he took to Switzerland) I mentioned one of his findings* – which was that he’d found the…
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Altogether Isabel recognizes some seven or eight individual dolphins and she has even named some of them. Most of them have Cambodian names. ‘Clasico’ was caught near Phnom…
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January 7, 2003 Out on the river: at 7 this morning we set off in a Fisheries department boat, to spend the day on the river. We made…