human. These sciences, hke physics, chemistry, and biology, play 

 the game as if the human observer were not there and the sys- 

 tems were isolated from man. This is fine strategy for "man-less 

 nature" studies and quite appropriate for such studies. 



However, I submit to you another view, for a science of man 

 and animal, their relationships to one another. Modern man and 

 modern dolphin and whale may be best investigated in the 

 framework of a new science one might call "anthropo-zoology" 

 or "zoo-anthropology." This science is a deep study of man, of 

 the animal, of their mutual relations, present and potential. In 

 this discipline scientists encourage close relations with the ani- 

 mal, and study the developing relation between man and so- 

 called "beast." 



For the last three years in the Communication Research In- 

 stitute^ we have been pursuing an investigative path in diis new 

 science with the pair "man and bottlenose dolphin." We have 

 encouraged and pursued studies in classical sciences such as 

 neurophysiology, animal psychology, anatomy, biophysics, and 

 zoology. We have also initiated and pursued this new science 

 of the man and dolphin relation; these "homo-delphic" studies, 

 if you will, are triply demanding: we must not only know our 

 animal objectively but we must know man objectively, and our- 

 selves subjectively. We cannot fight shy of involving ourselves 

 in the investigation as objects also. In this science man, and 

 hence one's own self, are part of the system under investigation. 

 This is not an easy discipline. One must guard quite as rigor- 

 ously (or even more so) against the pitfalls of wishful thinking 

 and sensational fantasy as in other scientific endeavors. This field 

 requires a self-candor, an inner honesty, and a humility quite 

 difficult to acquire. But I maintain that good science can be done 

 here, that the field is a proper one for properly trained and prop- 

 erly motivated investigators. 



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