Dolphins with Robin Williams. From the U.S. public television series In the Wild. Hosted by Robin Williams. Available from PBS, 1-800-645-4PBS.
In the Wild is a series of natural history specials featuring celebrities fulfilling life-long dreams of encountering animals in the wild and promoting their survival.Comedian Robin Williams fulfills his life-long dream of meeting a dolphin and interacts with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild. Included are visits to the labs of Ken Marten and Louis Herman, to a captive swim program in the Bahamas, and to Dean Bernal and JoJo in the Turks and Caicos. Williams is accompanied by Denise Herzing on his swim with wild dolphins in the Bahamas. [I found Robin's personality and upbeat nature to make the show somthing very special indeed (the dolphins really liked him too!) -Dolfin]
In 1992, Kenny Loggins teamed up with Earthtrust researchers to conduct a unique experiment at Earthtrust's dolphin intelligence research lab in Hawaii. This is how Kenny described his experience:This was the first time I'd ever had a chance to share my music so directly with another species. No one had ever played live music for these dolphins. When they had played recorded music, the dolphins didn't respond at all.
But I played a piece from the This Island Earth album for them, and when I hit a moment in playing the music-when it really started working for me and I was really in the groove-all of a sudden there was a crowd of dolphins in the window, just completely hovering right there with their eyes locked on me.
And what was interesting for me was that if I got where I started to hestitate or hunt for chords, they'd split. And as soon as the groove came back they'd be right back there.
So, it's those dolphins I think of now, and the mysteries they would take with them, if they were gone.
-Brigette Fonda (Dolphins in Danger)-
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