Maggie Ryan Sandford
What Is It Like to Be a Dolphin?
Maybe dolphins are more “tuned in” with the world around them, by necessity: a holistic blend of the physical, sensory, and cognitive, all seamless enough to remember to go up for air. Photograph by Matthew Baya / Flickr Humans have come to fetishize dolphins: their smiles, their penchant for heavy petting, and they imbue their […]
Put Yourself in a Dolphin’s Skin
Humans have come to fetishize dolphins: their smiles, their penchant for heavy petting, and they imbue their frolicking with moral assertions about one’s duty to live with abandon. These projections endear them to us.But the truth about what’s going on inside a dolphin’s head has very little to do with our human experience. Just as […]
