I know a lot of marine mammal scientists from my time at St Andrews University, where my fish behaviour group shared a building with the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU). Hopefully they will be happy to know that their enthusiasm for cetaceans left an impression on me, and has even led me to write up a short note which was published in 2014, and has recently been made available online... Rather than the cutting-edge science that my colleagues in SMRU are engaged with, this paper, published in the local peer-reviewed journal 'Living World: Journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club', simply highlights an unexpected encounter with a large school of dolphins in Tobago. However, in doing so I hope to highlight the importance of recording and sharing such seemingly 'ordinary' sightings. |