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Dolphin Gazette, DCP’S Quarterly Newsletter, Announced Quarterly by Parent Today & Support Valuable Scientific Eblast VOLUME 14 ISSUE 2 2010 uKILLER DOLHINS . 8 u NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS 5 The Dolphin u BIMINI UPDATE . 3 gazette NEWSLETTER FOR THE DOLPHIN COMMUNICATION PROJECT The Dolphin Communication Project (DCP) is focused on the dual goals of scientific research and education. Happy Summer! I fully believe that as we have fun, paper, and we have several more time passes more quickly! It seems manuscripts on the drafting table. Our like yesterday we were sharing spring/summer newsletter is loaded updates with our data analysis and with news and tips. Thank you for conference programs. Summer is upon your continued support! As a bit of us, weather-wise. Our research and foreshadowing, DCP plans to revamp educational programs from Bimini are out member program and launch it late in full swing. Check out the field this summer. Stay tuned for exciting reports to stay up-to-date. Our third happenings with DCP! DRT travel program brings 13 junior Cheers, high school students to Bimini in June. And, DCP is offering two more eco- KathleenIn this issue tours this year - to Bimini in May B i m i n i U p d a t e R I M S and to Roatan in September. Exciting Ecotour 2010 | Killer stuff! We are also getting more of our D o l p h i n s | N a t u r e Photography Tips | research results published; you can W h a l e s i n I r e l a n d | read the abstract from our most recent DCP Announcements The DolphinGazette is printed on 100% recycled paper! Mailing Address Thank you to DCP Internships Volunteers!! Dolphin Communication Project If you are interested in interning with P.O. Box 711 DCP would like to thank Binti Ackley and DCP during a fall or summer semester, Old Mystic, CT 06372-0711 Marliese Friedman for all their help this more information is available on our USA winter. Without your effort and assistance, website. Please note, most internships are DCP’s office could not run so smoothly. office-based and do NOT include field You do a great job processing data and work. Check out the web site or contact helping to keep things organized. Well us at [email protected]. done! What to do with a dead whale in Medieval Ireland Submitted by Ranke de Vries, PhD | Utrecht University all the birds would get sick and die. If he vomited on land, humans f you want to discover things about everyday life in and cattle would not live to see the end of the year. The whale did Imedieval Ireland, there are two places you should look: this, presumably, until it died (although the text does not tell us this the law texts and the annals. Annals are short notes about specifically). important events that occurred during any given year. Often, the entries refer to abnormal weather conditions he other two references are a little more benign. The next story (like red moons, snow and freezing weather – which is very Tinvolves a whale that has three gold teeth – I wonder who his uncommon in Ireland because of its sea climate), battles, and dentist was! Here is the translation of the relevant passages (I have deaths of saints or kings. But on a few occasions, we find reworked it a little to make the text a little easier to understand): references to marine mammals that had washed up on shore. ‘The sea cast ashore a whale in…the province of Ulster (roughly Northern Ireland). Every one in the neighborhood went to see it for e know that whales lived (and indeed still live) in the its wondrousness. When it was slaughtered, three golden teeth were Wseas around Ireland because the annals tell us of whale found in its head, each of which weighed fifty ounces. Fiachna, the strandings. This did not seem to happen that often because king of Ulster, and Eochaidh son of Breasal, chief of the clan Uí the annals only record things that are special or uncommon; Eachach Iveagh, sent one of these teeth to (the monastery of) Bangor if whales beached all the time, it would probably not be (in Northern Ireland), where it remained for a long time on the altar, mentioned (you will not find entries in the Irish annals that to be seen by all in general.’ (Annals of the four masters, 739 C.E.) say things like ‘April 25, 847. It rained today.’). he final legend that I will mention here, I happen to like very n the Middle Ages, Irish people were actually allowed to Tmuch. This particular tale explains the origin of the harp as a Ieat the meat of a beached whale – unless decomposition musical instrument. The tale becomes even more special if you know had already set in. It seems that the Irish population was how important the harp is in Ireland (it even has become somewhat very happy when a whale beached, at least judged from an of a national symbol for Ireland and things Irish in general). In any entry in the Annals of Connacht for the year 1246, where it case, it is nice to remember that if it had not been for a whale, the is stated that a stranded whale ‘…brought great relief and harp might never even have been invented. joy to the (people of the) countryside’. Of course, the reason they were so happy was that they could eat the whale meat here are a number of versions of this legend, but the part about and not starve to death. Tthe harp is basically the same. I will give you one version of the story. A woman named Canola (no relation to the oil) or Canolach ot only the meat of the whale was used. Baleen was used had an argument with her husband in the middle of the night. She Nin the making of saddles, according to some legal texts; got up and went outside to take a walk. During her walk, she heard blubber could be used for candles. And, of course, there is beautiful music. She sat down to listen to it and fell asleep. When ambergris. Ambergris was a very expensive commodity in she woke the next morning, she realized that the music was caused all of medieval Europe. It is secreted from the intestinal tract by the wind blowing through partially rotted sinew still attached to of sperm whales and is then coughed up and spit out, kind of a whale skeleton. Canola then designed the first harp based on the like a fur ball. It drifts around on the ocean before washing sinew and the skeleton (in some versions of the tale, the sinew is up on shore, where you can still sometimes find it. actually used as the string). mbergris was often used in expensive perfumes, because o this summer, if you don’t know where to go on vacation, you Ait made the smell of the perfume last a long time. Scould always go to the beach; who knows - you could find some Nowadays, ambergris has mostly been replaced by synthetic ambergris. materials, but there are still some perfumes that supposedly have ambergris in it, like Hermes Eau de merveilles and Literature: Creed. But I digress; back to medieval Ireland. ow the medieval Irish would not be the medieval Irish if Fergus Kelly, Early Irish law (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Nthey did not also possess some more fanciful references Studies 1988) or stories regarding whales. I have selected three of them for Fergus Kelly, Early Irish farming (Dublin: Dublin Institute for you. Advanced Studies 1997) he first reference to a strange whale can be found in A different version of the harp legend can be found in Eugene the tale of how the place Mag Muirisc, ‘the Plain of O’Curry’s On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish (London T 1873); the tale of Rossualt the whale can be found in Whitley Muiresc,’ got its name. It tells us that there was a huge Stokes’s article ‘The Bodleian dinnshenchas’, in Folklore 3/4 whale called Rossualt. He was cast ashore and just lay there. (1892), p. 507. But each year he would vomit, and this was bad news for everyone involved. If he vomited in the ocean, boats would sink and fish would die that year. If he vomited into the sky, 2 Ready, Set....BIMINI Submitted by Kelly Melillo Sweeting Bimini Research Manager Although I am now at our Bimini, The Bahamas field site year-round, the summer remains our busiest time of year. In Bimini, we collect video, acoustic and photographic data on the wild Atlantic spotted and bottlenose dolphins in the area. Our data collection at this site has been on-going since 2001 and we hope it continues well into the future! Two local dolphin- swim boat operators will again graciously donate boat space to DCP researchers. Bill & Nowdla Keefe’s Wild Dolphin Adventures (www.WildDolphins.com) and Al Sweeting, Jr. (www.BiminiAdventures.com) offer trips geared to tourists throughout the summer. We look On 23 April 2010, DCP researcher Kelly Melillo Sweeting observed a group of forward to talking with all their guests in the coming 10 adult Atlantic spotted dolphins while aboard Bill & Nowdla Keefe’s boat. It months. Our research would not be possible without was a great afternoon, watching this group! their support! Bimini Nature Trail and more. Each winter, Bimini gets a different sort of tourist influx - Pelicans! Although we’re dolphin research- ers, we love to watch these magnificent birds who There’s even more! DCP is excited to continue our summer hang out at local marinas.
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