I loved this book. You’ll learn a lot about dolphins –
The Aquarians: 2012 – a new era begins
by Eric Rankin, 2009
According to the ancient Mayan calendar, time as we know it will stop on December 21st, 2012. But what does this actually mean? Rebecca Larson, senior dolphin behaviorist at SeaWorld, San Diego, has a theory. She believes that the cooperative way dolphins live is the very reason they have thrived on earth for millions of years. What's more, she sees the end of the Mayan calendar as a moment when humans may truly begin to integrate these same peaceful behaviors.
Something similar to the research findings created in this fictional novel in 2009, seem to have come to pass in 2011 –
Using a CymaScope to make sound visible, British research team member John Stuart Reid was able to see the sono-pictorial images that the dolphins created and transmitted to each other. Reid explains below how the images form:
"When a dolphin scans an object with its high frequency sound beam, emitted in the form of short clicks, each click captures a still image, similar to a camera taking photographs. Each dolphin click is a pulse of pure sound that becomes modulated by the shape of the object. In other words, the pulse of reflected sound contains a semi-holographic representation of the object."
http://www.realitysandwich.com/speaking_pictures
