Dolphins, Primates of the Sea

There was a time, fifty million years ago, when an animal with short legs and a long snout looked at the water and decided to forget the land.It was not an instant, it was not a whim. It was a slow renunciation that lasted millennia: the legs became fins, the fur became smooth and shiny skin, the nostrils migrated to the forehead to open like a last breath on the surface. That animal, our distant relative, became another. And that other, in time, became ratified in many.If you leaf through this book, I will take you through the life of that branch of the tree of life that learned to live in blue. But don't expect a cold catalog of species and measurements. What you will find here is a saga: the story of mammals that, like us, form families, recognize each other by name, teach their young, negotiate alliances and feel loss.Because there is something about them that makes us uneasy and attracts us. Something that goes beyond their fixed gaze - that which aquariums have sold as happiness - or their acrobatics.This is the book of dolphins, those marine primates that intrigue us with their superior behavior and conquer us with their affections.

Pagina's: 68, Paperback, KS OmniScriptum Publishing