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The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Synopsis: When humans first settled Pern, intelligence-enhanced dolphins came with them--to colonize the planet's ocean. Now, centuries later, as the battle to destroy the deadly Thread nears its end, the colonists renew their bond with the legendary "shipfish. Acknowledgements again I wish to acknowledge the help of Dr Jack Cohen in keeping me on the straight and not so narrow path of Newtonian physics and common Terran biology, plus inventing whatever Pernese biology has been required. I Would also like to thank Rick Hobson of the Whale Conservation Institute in Lincoln, Mass., for his review of the material dealing With dolphins and delphinic behaviour. It Was through Rick Hobson that my daughter and I met and swam with Aphrodite and her son, AJ, at the Dolphin Research Center at Grassy Key, Florida. It was an experience that I shall treasure, as I will the "visit' we made, to sit on the float and watch Dart, Little Bit, and other dolphins playing in Sunset waters and "talking' to us. Those who have had the privilege of Swimming at Dolphin Research Center will recognize many of the names I have used. Well, why not? I met and valued their acknowledgement of me, a human. They meet many of us, and forget. But I
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