Mekong Journals: 5
ChrestomatherWhile 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…
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Amitav GhoshKratie, Cambodia, January 6, 2003 At 4 in the afternoon we went out to the observation platform where Isabel spends most of her time when she…
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January 5, 2003 Kratie Cambodia The town looks handsome from the river. There is a line of freshly-painted villas and the landing consists of a steep flight…