April 14 – National Dolphin Day

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• Visitn dolphins in real life or in a virtual way, such as this videon about a new behavior that dolphins invented. 

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• n Readn about dolphin intelligence. This article gives some reallyn interesting examples of dolphins learning and teaching behaviors.

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• n Checkn out the pink (albino) bottlenose dolphin…much cuter than the pink river dolphin from the Amazon river! 

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  Dolphins use the sounds they emit to locate yummy fish and other things in the marine environment. It’s called echolocation.

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  nListenn to dolphin sounds. 

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• nLearnn about dolphins saving a dogn and doing other heroic deeds.

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• nLearn more about dolphin’s bodies and lives and habits and habitatsn heren or here.

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• nWatch Dolphin Tale.

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• nFinally,n I have not yet listened to this TED talk, but Denise Herzing asks,n “Can we speak the language of dolphins?”

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nArcheologistnAugustus Pitt-Rivers’s birthday
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• nApriln holidays   

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• nApriln birthdays 

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in April

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• nMayn holidays 

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• nMayn birthdays 

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in May

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