To touch a wild dolphin / Smolker, Rachel

In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Australia where she'd heard that wild dolphins regularly interacted with people. Her trip started a fifteen-year scientific obsession that has produced an intimate account of dolphin life in the wild.

The author describes her experiences as one of a group of scientists who spent fifteen years exploring the lives of dolphins in their natural environment at Monkey Mia beach in Australia; and shares what her research has revealed about dolphin society and the characters that inhabit it.