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00:00Free to join its own kind, this dolphin has chosen human companionship.
00:12Good girl. Good girl, Dolly. Come on. Yeah, are you a pretty girl? Pretty girl.
00:23Pretty girl. Well, I don't know what that was for. Between Jean Asbury of Florida and this dolphin that came to visit and out of affection stayed, there is kinship and communication.
00:41Give mommy a kiss. Oh, beautiful. Juicy but beautiful. You're a good girl.
00:53We are familiar with the trained dolphin, those put on display, taught to mimic the human voice and to respond to man's signals and applause.
01:08But there are great herds of dolphins still living in freedom. Too swift to be easily observed, little is known about the dolphin in the wild.
01:16This air-breathing mammal was once an earthbound animal. But 60 million years ago, he fled the confines of land for the wide waters of open seas and became the legendary friend of gods, men and children.
01:31Now, in the dolphin's natural domain, Captain Cousteau and divers of Calypso would explore the continuing relationship between man and dolphin, a relationship that has inspired philosophers and poets from the beginning of recorded time.
01:46It's really beautiful.
01:49That's amazing.
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02:42In pursuit of dolphins, Calypso cruises the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, off the coast of Spain.
03:01Bon, vous tournez lĂ ?
03:02Ăa va.
03:03Hein ? Bon. Alors Philippe, nous approchons.
03:06As they approach a dolphin herd, Captain Cousteau alerts the crew to prepare for filming.
03:19Cousteau and diving supervisor Albert Falco also plan to collect a dolphin for study at sea.
03:25Filming three dolphins is a challenge.
03:43They are too swift for divers to approach them.
03:46They never stay behind or alongside a ship, but they are attracted to the bow as to a magnet.
03:51To Calypso, we have attached an extension with an underwater camera aimed backward toward the nose of the ship.
04:00We hope the extension camera will reveal dolphins swimming head-on, never before achieved on film.
04:06Meanwhile, frolicking hitchhikers come from all directions.
04:14But the main herd continues to outrun the ship, its underwater camera boom, and all other protruding contraptions.
04:21As skipper Philippe Serrault pursues them, Cousteau fears that the new extension camera might frighten the dolphins away.
04:35Alors, viens, viens.
04:36But the system devised by underwater cameraman Yves Omer works.
04:41Now, for the first time, front-view shots of dolphins swimming freely toward camera.
04:46Voilà , il a vraiment impacté.
04:48Ah, c'est lĂ , regardez ça. Ăa y est, ils ont piquĂ©.
04:51Ah, voilĂ .
04:54Another camera, mounted on the hull, reveals dolphins venturing between the bow and the extension camera.
05:00Now, we can observe that the wise dolphin never swims straight ahead of the boat,
05:11but cautiously leans from side to side, ready to drop off if threatened.
05:16From the observation port, the animals are identified as the saddleback dolphin,
05:22one of 50 dolphin species belonging to the whale family.
05:26The dolphin is the littlest whale.
05:40Ever since they guided the vessels of the earliest settlers to Crete, more than 3,000 years B.C.,
05:47dolphins have accompanied ships.
05:50Are they in quest of man's friendship, or do they merely come to play?
05:54There are now enough dolphins off the bow to attempt the next phase of the operation,
06:12isolation of a dolphin from the herd.
06:17Falco is to be the captor.
06:19He hurries into position on the platform directly above the dolphins,
06:23riding the bow wave on starboard.
06:25C'est parti, c'est parti.
06:28Oh lĂ , c'est parti.
06:34C'est bon.
06:37C'est bon.
06:38The plan is to net a dolphin at full speed.
06:45Upon contact, the small net will break away from the metal fork that holds it,
06:49and gently enwrap the dolphin.
06:57A buoy with a line attached is tossed to the crew in the Zodiac.
07:00The line is tied to the net, so that the crew will be able to haul the animal into the Zodiac,
07:06out of the way of the propellers of the oncoming Calypso.
07:11In the rising sea, the Zodiac has difficulty keeping up with its mothership.
07:16Dolphins generally cruise at eight or ten knots, but are capable of bursts of speed up to 35 miles an hour.
07:37Continually changing course, they are elusive targets.
07:41Falco must carefully pick his dolphin,
07:43and throw the net immediately ahead of it,
07:45so that he does not hit the dolphin with the net's metal fork.
08:11It's a miss.
08:13They will have to quickly retrieve the fork and try again,
08:16before the herd is scattered.
08:27Alarmed, most of the dolphins fly away like arrows through the sea.
08:31It is impossible to pursue them.
08:34But luckily, a few have chosen to remain,
08:37riding our bow.
08:38Thanks.
08:46And here we are.
09:00Take care of it.
09:02Watch out.
09:04Let's go.
09:06The throw is good.
09:12Calypso is stopped to avoid hitting the entangled dolphin.
09:26The catch is clean and harmless to the dolphin.
09:30It is now up to the men in the Zodiac to slowly haul in and calm this highly sensitive
09:34creature.
09:38Our dolphin is bewildered and gives up easily to man.
09:45In ancient times it was believed that dolphins were once men.
09:49Within their talented flippers are all the bones of our human hands.
09:54And I wonder about our brain, as large as ours, and in some ways superior.
10:00We appear to be fundamentally equal, but can we ever communicate?
10:14Treated with care, the dolphin will now be delivered beside Calypso, where experiments will take
10:19place.
10:22Our highly emotive dolphin has been catapulted from the exuberance of play to captivity.
10:29Yet she seems inclined to trust in us, a trust we must not betray.
10:43Men of the Calypso lower a specially designed pool.
10:50Instead of taking the dolphin to a laboratory's concrete tank, Captain Cousteau and scientists
10:55will conduct their experiments right here, in the dolphin's natural environment, the ocean
11:00of its origin.
11:01Albert Falco will be the dolphin's guide and companion in the pool.
11:09If it is to be receptive to experiments, Falco must win the trust of the dolphin, now in shock.
11:19Soft of voice and touch, Bernard Delamotte passes the inert body to Falco.
11:24Dolphin authority Dr. René Guy-Bousnel asks if the heart continues to beat abnormally, twice
11:38the normal rate of 70 beats per minute.
11:41Falco says it has slowed down somewhat, as has the animal's breathing.
11:50Falco dares not let the dolphin submerge before all returns to normal.
11:54It could inhale seawater through its blowhole and drown.
12:00Busnel, who will supervise the experiments, cautions that it will be some minutes before
12:05the dolphin is all right.
12:07The dolphin we have detained is a young female, warm blooded herself, she is reassured by
12:29the touch of another warm mammal.
12:31Her satin smooth skin is highly sensitive, and she seems to feel encouraged by her gentle
12:38escort.
12:40Falco shows the dolphin the net, bright and quick to learn.
12:47Depending on both sight and sound, she surveys her environment, as television cameras are installed
12:53to film dolphin echolocation.
12:56The dolphin does not attempt to jump the pool's barriers, perhaps fearing injury to her delicate
13:02skin.
13:03Falco shows the sound of the dolphin echolocation.
13:08Aboard Calypso, we have the opportunity to record the clicking sounds of the dolphin's echolocation
13:14sonar system, as well as the whistling.
13:18Analysing the signals on an oscilloscope and matching these to television pictures of the
13:23animal, we are able to establish an audiovisual record of behavior patterns.
13:28What's that?
13:29The dolphin emits acoustic trains of clicks from two air sacs in her forehead.
13:36Sweeping her head in a scanning motion, she hears reflected echoes of her clicks, and
13:42thus locates all obstacles in her way.
13:47On the second day, the dolphin's triangular pool is rigged with radar, and with three hydrophones
13:55connected to antennas at each corner.
13:58The calls of the dolphin will be analyzed on a multi-channel tape recorder.
14:02As signals and behavior patterns simultaneously recur, man may learn how they are correlated.
14:08So that the noise of the ship's props and generators will not interfere with the recording of
14:16the dolphin's vocalization, Calypso departs, leaving the dolphin behind.
14:35That evening, four miles away, Calypso radar and radio are in constant contact with the dolphin.
14:42For Dr. Alvin Zietzik and his animal acoustics experts, the reception is perfect, as the isolated
14:48young female calls in the night.
14:51The men are struck by the consistency of the dolphin's vocalization and the emotional quality
15:11of her cries.
15:29The cries intensify.
15:30They are like those of a wounded animal.
15:36The communication whistles fall partly in the range of human hearing, but she does not call
15:47to man.
15:48She is calling to her missing herd.
16:10Our unhappy dolphin provides us with a great variety of recordings of her voice.
16:17Her lonely calls will not go unheeded.
16:25At dawn, Calypso returns.
16:30After the dolphin's night of distress, Falco would comfort Babil, the talkative one, with
16:36small mackerel, her favorite food.
16:40That's theæ droid of concentration.
16:42Is it possible?
16:43Yes.
16:44That's delicious.
16:45It's horrible, my little boy.
16:46The beat is bad in the morning.
16:47Ok, come on.
16:48Come on.
16:50The tidbit is a little and very nice to do.
16:51It's bad.
16:56It's just it.
16:57Okay, come on.
16:58Maybe not in the morning.
17:00Not in the morning.
17:01Five minutes.
17:02It's good.
17:03Right.
17:04.
17:09Simulating fish on the surface, Falco slaps the water to attract her, then tosses a mackerel.
17:19But she will not eat.
17:29She has also grown silent.
17:37Although Falco continues his overtures, she repeatedly refuses food.
17:55Dolphins are social animals and have been known to starve themselves to death when deprived
18:00of company.
18:03We will bring our lonely lady, a male companion.
18:08Plans for the introduction of a companion dolphin are postponed as a storm gathers.
18:13The female in the pool will be in grave danger.
18:17Delamotte and Falco must rescue her.
18:19If the dolphin becomes entangled in the wave-tossed net, she will be unable to surface to breathe
18:24and will suffocate.
18:31She is under stress and weakened from lack of food.
18:57They dare not turn her loose.
19:03With gentle urgency, her trembling body is passed to Falco and Jeunesse.
19:09She is in a state of shock.
19:16She is under stress.
19:30She has a sailor on the other side, and she is in a state of stress.
19:37carefully the dolphin is brought aboard each man reaching out eager to help for
19:51we are all gravely worried she will be cared for in the protection of the
19:57holding tank her labor breathing tells us she's a very sick dolphin unlike man
20:05who breathes automatically almost involuntarily hers is voluntary breathing if she is allowed
20:13to slip into unconsciousness she might stop breathing and die
20:25glucose serum is fed into the starving animal she is also dehydrated her fragile skin is kept
20:31wet to avoid cracking and she is tranquilized by voice and touch all through the night the men
20:44of calypso keep watch by dawn the young female is out of shock but now she must take solid food to
20:58survive falco and delamate are closest to her they will patiently encourage her to eat
21:03while we gently force feed our dolphin
21:32in another part of the world frustrated whalers are preparing to slaughter dolphins to provide
21:39canned food for pets
21:40baby lonely dying dolphin we have a boyfriend for you you must eat
21:53the young female is again in her pool her powerful horizontal fluke pushes her to the surface to breathe
22:14normally every 20 seconds according to plan a young male is lowered into the pool to keep her company
22:28Đ”Ń
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22:36Falco attempts to orient the newcomer the female who knows the met intervenes to guide her companion around the pool herself utilizing body contact and vocalization
22:47Babiel the talkative one long silent has now fully recovered
22:55there is a deep-seated maternal instinct in the female dolphin early Greeks and Romans knew this
23:04and called her species Delphis meaning womb after she mates she will give birth to a single pup
23:11she will push her newborn to the surface to breathe this may be why dolphins have
23:17been reported since antiquity to push downing children and sailors to the life-saving surface
23:23happily transformed by the presence of a male companion in the female talks to him touches
23:34him guides him they swim side by side their body movements in harmony
23:47it's feeding time but there is some uncertainty as to whether the dolphins will eat in the pool
24:08content now the young female is first to take food and the newcomer follows her example
24:17Falco pets Babiel in praise she has been a good teacher
24:27she has prepared the way for observation of two animals in the sea
24:34Cousteau informs Boussnel that the television cameras have been turned on the hydrophone too
24:42you see our two animals swimming quietly in their prison oh they looks absolutely normal yes and they are
25:12absolutely not stressed now what do we hear on the microphone we hear clicking and whistling and sometimes you see when we have the animal on the screen the bubbles
25:24who have expelled from the blowhole and they are doing yeah exactly like that that is during the whistling and the whistling is mostly used for what we call social communication
25:38and what I suggest is to blindfold the animal with suction cup and to see if the second animal
25:50and the first one you want to put a mask on one of all those things
25:54soft plastic eye cups are placed on the young male the divers are careful not to cover the
26:02life-sustaining blowhole the animal is now blind and you can hear the clicking used for the
26:10collocation and it's not like the sonar system now look at Bernard Bernard is hardly holding him and
26:17he's probably going to release him
26:26the click trains range from low audible frequencies to supersonic signals
26:3110 times higher than man can hear period he's gone exactly as if he had nothing
26:38the ears of the dolphin once those of a hairy land animal have been reduced through streamlining to tiny
26:44pinholes during auditory scanning the dolphin receives echoes basically through the lower jaw
26:50a strong echo on one side indicates the location of the net
26:57the blindfolded male is also definitely being assisted by the whistling female
27:01who continues to tell him where the net is
27:03for this reason busnell now orders the female removed from the pool
27:11for the duration of one experiment at least her blindfolded companion will be left on his own
27:16for an unusual test of dolphin sonar spaced steel rods are lowered the net with which the blindfolded
27:35dolphin is now familiar is cut and dropped to the bottom of the pool
27:55seeing by sound the blindfolded dolphin uses his computer brain much faster than man's to locate and
28:01identify although he cannot see these steel rods his sonar scans and locates them one by one
28:11since the dolphin's delicate skin is easily injured he is reluctant to attempt escape by squeezing
28:16through the steel barriers he has discovered
28:24the dolphin continues to search with sound for a wider opening but can't find one
28:31it is these echoes in the underwater wilderness the dolphin's sophisticated sonar that has come to
28:45the aid of mankind thanks to dolphin research in birmingham england a blind man sees with his ears
28:55he walks with confidence as ultrasonic spectacles radiate energy and echoes come back to both ears in two-channel sonar
29:10people and parking meters patterns of sound carry these pictures to his mind and the eyes of the blind are opened
29:17by the dolphins world of sound
29:24aboard calypso tapes of dolphin sounds are analyzed
29:34dolphins communicate with each other by whistling
29:37but are they capable of language expressing abstract ideas through words or sounds
29:43and will they ever talk to man the dolphin has no vocal cords so rather than train dolphins to mimic human
29:52words it is suggested that the dolphin be taught a whistle language a language more natural to the animal
29:58like that used by the people studied and taped by busnel in the canary islands
30:02the modulations of whistling dolphins are in the same range as the canary island whistle people
30:21across the steep volcanic cliffs of gemara language is not spoken but whistled the terrain
30:27is so precipitous that people of the canary islands converse with bird-like calls
30:38whereas a shout would be lost on the wind whistlers talk to each other from a distance up to six miles
30:57six miles
31:05servando in the village asks elenio on the mountain
31:08to relay a message to his wife filomena
31:15elenio says he will and turns to call to filomena a shepherd of standing sheep in the hills
31:26Alenio continues to call, Philomena, Alenio calling Philomena, Alenio conveys
31:55the message. Her husband would like her to buy some bread on her way home this evening.
32:00In contrast to the female dolphin, this is a woman of few words.
32:06It was tempting to hypothesize that human whistlers and dolphins could learn to converse.
32:14Alas, exhaustive computer analysis proved conclusively that it was impossible.
32:19But is language really essential to every type of communication?
32:25Our young male and female are about to be returned at their herd.
32:38Even without a common language, man and dolphin have associated since the early ages.
32:44Now in Africa, Calypso cameraman and crew will investigate living evidence of the dolphin's
32:49fabled cooperation with man.
32:59In Mauritania, northwest Africa, a sound of centuries, beckoning dolphins to the aid of man.
33:06From time immemorial, the fishermen of the Amrogan tribe have been dependent upon dolphins to push
33:17migrating mullet into their nets.
33:19But this season, the fish are still far from shore, and the dolphins have not yet answered the call.
33:24Led by a marabou, a religious chief, the fishermen pray for the dolphins to come.
33:44Their nets are dry, but enshrined in mythology is the dolphin's willingness to serve both gods and men.
33:51The last dried mullet of a previous catch.
34:01Dwindling food supply of families dependent solely upon the sea for subsistence.
34:06A fisherman walks in the shadow of starvation.
34:09Over this land, another shadow was until recently cast by man, that of slavery.
34:14Today, still, fishermen pay tribute to desert warriors.
34:18One fish for every ten taken from the unpredictable sea.
34:25Now from the sea, not dolphin, but men of Calypso unexpectedly come to the fishermen's shores.
34:31About the year 70 AD, Pliny the Elder tells us how dolphins catch fish in partnership with human fishermen.
34:41Here, where the desert land meets the bountiful sea, we come to film what is left of that venerable report.
34:48As we seek the past, our hosts are suddenly confronted with the present.
35:02Tribesmen are puzzled by the wetsuit of Jean-Claire Rion, in texture so very much like that of the missing dolphin.
35:08In a mixed reception to Rion, some women and children display fear.
35:26Others indicate bewilderment.
35:27Our interpreter tells Rion the people are not so much afraid of him as they are curious,
35:39questioning whether or not he's a normal man.
35:47No Imragan has ever been a blonde man.
35:51And Rion has a fair beard and a black body.
35:54Is Rion a real man, or some kind of dolphin man?
36:04The male dolphin has his reproductive organs within the abdominal cavity, for streamlining.
36:10What about Rion?
36:13He has the beard of a man.
36:15What about the rest of him?
36:24What about Rion?
36:25What about the rest of him?
36:25What about the rest of him?
36:35Rion is now obliged to strip off his wetsuit to prove his case.
36:54The merriment is cut short, as some take exception to the crew's presence.
37:24Some feel the presence of strangers might somehow continue to keep the dolphins away.
37:40They keep trying to lure the dolphin by simulating the sound of leaping mullets close to shore.
37:46Changes in the color of the sea indicate mullet are still migrating.
37:49But where are the dolphins?
38:05At last, far at sea, a fin.
38:09But it's not a dolphin.
38:11They're killer whales.
38:14The Calypso team sets out to drive off the dolphin's prime predator.
38:21Dolphins flee in terror when they see the great sword-like dorsal fin or hear the powerful
38:27underwater whistle of the killer whale.
38:36We understand now why dolphins have not appeared.
38:40We know that before they can possibly show, this pack of their dangerous cousins must be
38:45turned away.
38:47Up to this time, we have been somewhat skeptical about the dolphins' voluntary cooperation with
39:05the fishermen of Mauritania.
39:07But now, as the killer whales depart, we find ourselves actively involved in that legend.
39:21As the fishermen wait, they play desert chess on the sand with sticks and dried goat pellets.
39:27And wait.
39:51And still they wait.
40:04We too take turns calling the dolphins.
40:11In the words of Plutarch, the dolphin has no need of any man, yet is a friend of all men.
40:20To the dolphin alone has nature bestowed the gift of disinterested friendship.
40:31And still, for evidence of his friendship, an anxious camera crew and stoic fishermen wait.
40:45Suddenly a dramatic color change out at sea.
40:52Dolphins at last, driving mullet before them.
40:56And on the wind is the sound of dolphins.
41:16Calypso cameraman will have to make quick decisions to capture the lightning raid of these
41:20climax predators.
41:35A dolphin turns a mullet around in its mouth, swallows it head first and whole.
41:41It is a mass migration up shore, where the water boils with mullet.
41:52Swift dolphin encircle mullet, bunching them into violent explosions.
42:01Who is now is amazed at their size and how close to shore they fish.
42:16Corraled mullet are driven toward the fishermen, now joyously entering the water with their nets.
42:22Ladies join their fathers in the excitement, learning an ancient but relevant trade.
42:35In murky water dolphins cannot see, sending signals, receiving echoes, the dolphin instantly computerizes speed
42:50and location of the fleeing fish.
43:09The hunting dolphins encircle and drive great schools of mullet into the fishermen's gill nets, stretching their individual nets together.
43:19The men create a collective seine to entrap their frantic prey.
43:33Yves Omer attempts to photograph the action underwater.
43:38The water is murky, but he can hear the dolphin's sonar clicks as they pursue the fish in eruptive flight.
43:48What is for man a vital windfall is for the dolphin a gluttonous orgy.
44:07As for the yellow mullet trapped by these formidable allies, it is a pathetic ordeal.
44:12Yet their species is not in jeopardy, for 90% of them get away.
44:17In this spectacular display of interspecies cooperation, has the dolphin traveled all the way from the open sea just to help man by driving these fish into his nets?
44:32Or is the dolphin actually using man and his nets in order to gather a gargantuan feast for himself?
44:51Plutarch's disinterested friendship between man and dolphin, like happy marriages, should not be over-analyzed.
44:58Rewarding enough in a good partnership if both sides get their share.
45:03Off the shores of Mauritania, tons of mullet are taken during the seasonal migration.
45:20Women will clean and dry the catch, and the highly prized roe will be sold in Mediterranean marketplaces.
45:27For the fishermen who waited so long, gill nets are now heavy with harvest, thanks to the dolphins who answered their call.
45:34The Calypso crew has filmed a legend, and found special empathy with those who live in the sea.
45:55The Calypso crew has filmed a legend.
46:01Dolphins may never talk to man, but in Mauritania, brought together by the dolphin, man talks to man.
46:12That night, the Imraguans celebrate abundance, wrought by the Dolphins.
46:19That night, the Imraguans celebrate abundance, wrought by the Dolphins.
46:31That night, the Imraguans celebrate abundance, wrought by the Dolphins.
46:36Songs and dances are human expressions of joy. Dolphins too are capable of joy, and we wonder if they also celebrate.
46:59We know the swift and clever Dolphin has no problem finding his daily food without the help of man.
47:08Most of his time is spent in leisure, traveling thousands of miles, leading an intricate social and emotional life.
47:16Diving maybe 4 million times in a 40-year lifespan, sometimes as deep as 1,000 feet.
47:22And playing too. Playing all day long. As man himself returns to the ocean, his best friend remains the Dolphin, living spirit of the sea.
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