Fun with dolphins 
                            
                   ·never mussel things again

如果要说哪种动物与人类最亲近，首选应当会是犬类与海豚，但并不所有的狗狗一见到人都亲切，而海豚却似乎天生地对人类存在一种好感，哪怕是素未谋面。
What kind of animal is the most friendly one to human being ? For me, I will choose dogs and dolphins.But not all the dogs are kind, some are fierce indeed.In comparison, dolphins seem born to be kind even if we've never met before.

 
A diary that day

May 22nd, 2009 ,2009年 五月二十二日  

"There is no signal for telephone or internet where we are now, nor any other boats to be seen, so you can imagine how isolated we suddenly feel, here in the fiords of Southland.

Instead of human civilization we are surrounded by the most stunning nature and wildlife. As luck would have it, this morning, we came across an amazing sight, one of human's closest friends, the dolphin!
我们现在所在的地儿既没有电话通讯也没有互联网，还看不到任何船只。因此你可以想象忽然而至的与世隔绝感，这里就是南岛的峡湾地区。

取代人类文明社会环绕我们的是足以令人称奇的美丽大自然和野生动物。今早，幸运之神翩然而至，我们极为壮观地遇见人类最亲近的朋友之一，海豚们!
Late in the morning, around 10 AM, Pangaea arrived with full sail into the Dusky Sound. The weather was the best we had had so far. The sunshine was beaming down and flickering upon the sea and there was a gentle, cool breeze and thin clouds. During winter the South Island of New Zealand is seldom forecasted without rain or cold temperatures! Yes, don`t forget it is now winter in New Zealand and temperatures are often below 10°C.

上午晚些时候，大约在十点，泛大陆号升起全帆，全速驶入到 Dusky Sound湾区。今天的天气好的不得了，是我们此次远征以来遇见的最好的天儿。阳光洒满大地，海面上熠熠生辉。轻柔而舒适的风儿拂面，天空上只有薄薄的云朵。在冬季的新西兰南岛是很少有雨和冷冻天气的!别忘记喽，在新西兰其它地区的冬季温度通常是零下10度。

All of the Young Explorers and Mike Horn Team came up on deck when we reached the middle of the sound. And there they were! At the beginning, there were just two or three dolphins playing in the distance, but as time passed little by little, more of them emerged from the deep sea and came closer to us, showing absolutely no fear! We could easily see their immense, smooth bodies through the clear sea! You cannot imagine how happy we were - what excitment!

帆船到达这个湾区的中间的时候，所有队员和麦克的团队成员齐聚甲板。这时奇迹也出现啦! 我们看见海豚!起先是两三只在远处游弋，但是随着时间一点一点推移，越来越多的海豚从深海浮出水面、越来越靠近我们!而且他们看上去一点都没有恐惧感!这么近距离，透过清澈的海水我们很容易地观察到他们巨大而光滑的身躯!你都没法想象我们是多么开心 - 又是多么激动啊!

Dolphins are very social mammals, as Dave, the Marine Biologist told us. We could see the mothers accompaning their calves and then later others would come and join the group.

船上海洋生物学家Dave告诉我们，海豚是非常具有社交能力和喜欢群居的哺乳类动物。我们可以观察到海豚妈妈们陪伴着他们的宝贝小海豚，随后呢其它的海豚也会加入到海豚妈妈和孩子们的群里来。

The most important part of our scientific observation was to see whether they had nicks on their dorsal fin. Usually the nicks are bite marks made by the calves, with which the conservationists can identify them and count their numbers.

我们要做的科学观察最重要的部分是看看在他们的背鳍上是否有小疤痕。这些疤痕通常是被这些小海豚啄咬的，而自然保护工作者们正是通过这些来辨别并且盘点海豚的数量。

There is a saying that states, 'the more you see, the more you want to see', but instead of over-staying our welcome, we decided to leave and no disturb the dolphins any further. It's very important not to interefere and to leave nature as you find it. Afterall, we were just passers-by and had already experienced a very privileged moment!

常言道:欲罢不能休。我们决定不这么一个劲儿地站在那儿欢迎海豚们了，我们马上离开且不再打扰海豚们。当你发现自然景观也好野生动物也罢，不去打搅且让他们保持自然状态是非常重要的。毕竟我们只是过客而且我们已经获得无与伦比的特殊待遇。"

Thing I thought when back 

But in my school, Shenzhen Foreigh Languages School, you can always enjoy the scene that students play with wild mother cats and baby cats.And I even once saw a parturient mother cat crawled onto a sitting girl's laps for relieving pain. I remember that cats lay casually on the school streets for sunbath and a squad of birds fly low over them.

How nice!
But I disagree that many students like to share snacks with wild cats.Now they become large number and fat.  We break the balance somehow though indeliberately.

    The best way to human to treat the animals is to let they live their own life,they don't need your design.

晚上，我们在圆桌会议上谈论起今天的奇遇，回放起拍下的照片，大家都兴奋不已，我们将根据那些照片上清晰的背鳍制作自己的宽吻海豚（bottlenose dolphin）记录本。Dave顺便跟我们谈起一些海豚的习性。当Raphael问到海豚是如何睡觉时，我们得到了一个很有趣的答案，海豚的大脑分为两个部分，因为海豚的呼吸不像人类被动的自然呼吸，所以一部分休息的时候，另一部分就必须开启工作，以控制呼吸。最后Sophia遗憾地说，她光顾着拍照，还没来得及好好体验这人与动物间美好的快乐呢。
   

 At night,we shared the pics and videos of dolphins we took on the round table meeting.And we were gonna make a catalog of the bottlenose dolphin by ourselves.Image if years later we can still find the ones we met today!
   One interesting thing we learnt about dolphins is how they sleep. Their heads are divided into two parts.They switch one on to help breath (human's breath is passive but dolphins have to make a breath proactively) and the other one sleeps.just one on, one off.,then exchange.Sophia said she willed to learn the habit between animals and people.Will we don't need sleeping one day like them?  

 One moving thing Dave told us is that dolphins are quite social animals,ie they have strong attachment to their family and friends. He once saw a mother dolphin carry a calf on its back onto the sea surface for 3 days.But the calf was dead! His mother might try her hard to see if he can breath again!

另外，我们今天将吃完的贻贝壳扔在了深海里，Dave说海底泥将解决它们，比起扔在浅滩上，尽可能降低对自然的影响。啊，思索是人类在行为前不可缺少的动作！

P.S. We throwed the mussel shells into the deep sea today,not shallow water because that will lower the impact shells have on the environment.Dave said the soil underwater would decompose them.

    Take care of behavior.
    Never mussel things again.

  没有人会想到几世纪前，欧洲人会在这片峡湾对鲸鱼们毫无可爱，却大开杀戒，当然，这种现在在其它地方还有。
   船上的一位南非摄影师给我们看他在南非拍的照片，在他们城市的近海，就有成群成群的鲸鱼自在畅游！实在amazing惊美! 后来在我们离开峡湾的最后一天，也看到了鲸鱼，在海面甩起了巨尾。记得今年4月我和母亲到香港的离岛大澳，乘艇出海，久久后看到一只中华白海豚，如同一只粉红色的小猪一样在浪间一拱一拱，但却很快又消失了。

  而我也知道为了建造三峡水利工程，许多生态保护区已经受到严重破坏，Dave说有一种在长江生活的海豚，已经灭绝了。

  城市里，鸟们就连你因好奇的靠近都惊恐地展翅而逃。

But you will never notice thet human years ago polished their weapons to the whales in this fjords.(For sure,they're killed in some other places now.)

Moose(a south african camerer) showed us the pics he took in Sourh Africa. There are hundreds of whales swimming just near the city ringe !!showing their tails!! Have you ever seen whales just through your windows??!! So amazing!And I remember the last day we left the fjords a whale was seen to our delight.

On 2009.4, I went to a seaside village in Hong Kong with my mum. We took a mosquito craft out to the sea.After long,a dolphin emerged, it was a little chinese white dolphin, springing up the sea surface like a pink pig then soon disapeared, never seen again to all our frustration.

And for building the 3 gorges dam in the Chang Jiang river( the longest river in China),the animal presevations are threatened and one particual dolphins which lived there have become a history,they are extinct.

人与其他生灵间的和谐该如何建立？

友善，自由。在深外校园内，常常能看到这样的情景，同学们与楼梯口间的大猫小猫玩得不亦乐乎，我还见过那只快生产的母猫主动爬到一个坐在走廊上的女孩的膝上，卧下，毫无戒心。校园里的猫猫越来越常见，同学们常常快乐将自己的零嘴与猫们分享，但我认为这不一定是件好事，因为猫本不以此为生，如果无意破坏了自然中的一些常规，很难预测以后会发生什么，哈哈，在这里做点小小的倡议。

How to build up the hamony between the animals and we human?
Funny that we named them and killed them like a arrogant destiny controller.