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I'm going to start off with: this book it is good. It is interesting and at times entertaining. It is not, however, a book about dolphin behavior or conscience as it is portrayed. Instead, this book is about the relationship between humans and dolphins. As a result, it lost a star, because this is not what I was looking for, nor was it what the title suggested.
This book also varies in credibility, and some chapters are worse than others. If I rated it by chapter-to-chapter, for instance, every Joan Ocean one would get 1 star, tops. In case you don't know, Ocean is an ex-psychologist who has taken her fascination with dolphins to the next level. She has become a cult-leader, preaching about how dolphins are aliens who can teleport, time-travel, and communicate telepathically. She lacks logic in all forms of the word. She believes that the images she "recieves" when talking to dolphins are answers to questions. They are not. They are the first thing she thinks of when hearing the question. This is common understanding. And the "spaceship" she sees, while I may not know what it is, I know that Hawaii is made up of volcanos, so I'm guessing they are related. The dolphins looked different because of the change in the water. That's it. Ocean says she would lose credibility for publishing that. What she is unaware of us that she has no credibility in the first place. And this makes me question Casey's work. Yes, she is writing about human-dolphin relationships, and Ocean fits in here. However, she tries to use well-known facts in tangent with Ocean's crazy theories, and that does not work. This may be nonfiction, but I know that I would not use it as a source. If I did, I would do a lot of fact checking to be sure that what Casey says is accurate.
Finally, while I didn't mind it, as I've read much worse, Casey does talk about dolphin slaughters, and goes into detail, so if this is a sensitive topic for you, I would avoid this book.
In the end, I did learn a lot about the relationship between humans and dolphins. While I do not trust it completely, it is still a good starting point for that topic. If you still want to read this, enjoy it. Just be warned it has a slow start.
This book also varies in credibility, and some chapters are worse than others. If I rated it by chapter-to-chapter, for instance, every Joan Ocean one would get 1 star, tops. In case you don't know, Ocean is an ex-psychologist who has taken her fascination with dolphins to the next level. She has become a cult-leader, preaching about how dolphins are aliens who can teleport, time-travel, and communicate telepathically. She lacks logic in all forms of the word. She believes that the images she "recieves" when talking to dolphins are answers to questions. They are not. They are the first thing she thinks of when hearing the question. This is common understanding. And the "spaceship" she sees, while I may not know what it is, I know that Hawaii is made up of volcanos, so I'm guessing they are related. The dolphins looked different because of the change in the water. That's it. Ocean says she would lose credibility for publishing that. What she is unaware of us that she has no credibility in the first place. And this makes me question Casey's work. Yes, she is writing about human-dolphin relationships, and Ocean fits in here. However, she tries to use well-known facts in tangent with Ocean's crazy theories, and that does not work. This may be nonfiction, but I know that I would not use it as a source. If I did, I would do a lot of fact checking to be sure that what Casey says is accurate.
Finally, while I didn't mind it, as I've read much worse, Casey does talk about dolphin slaughters, and goes into detail, so if this is a sensitive topic for you, I would avoid this book.
In the end, I did learn a lot about the relationship between humans and dolphins. While I do not trust it completely, it is still a good starting point for that topic. If you still want to read this, enjoy it. Just be warned it has a slow start.