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Rex\u2014a rough-toothed dolphin, a species rarely found under human care\u2014has the cutest vocalizations when he\u2019s trying to get your attention, said Hailey McGovern, one of 11 Eckerd College students studying the animal at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium<\/a>.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\u201cI won\u2019t say he\u2019s my favorite,\u201d admitted the first-year animal studies<\/a> and psychology<\/a> student from Highland Lakes, New Jersey. \u201cThey both have really big personalities. Rudy has his own charms.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Clearwater Marine Aquarium acquired Rex (who had been stranded in the Florida Panhandle and rehabilitated at Gulf World<\/a>) and Rudy (who had been stranded near Sanibel Island, Florida), Assistant Professor of Animal Studies Erin Frick, Ph.D<\/a>., saw an opportunity to learn more about a species with very little available information because of its deep water habitat. Frick approached the aquarium with a research proposal in October 2020, and it was approved in December as the first-ever research collaboration between the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and a higher education institution.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”6904″ animation=”Fade In From Bottom” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]The two rough-toothed dolphins at the aquarium have been deemed unreleasable because of hearing loss. Photo courtesy Erin Frick\/Eckerd College<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\u201cWe\u2019ve had individual researchers come in and do projects before but never an alignment with a college the way this research project with Eckerd is structured,\u201d said Robin Curry, the aquarium\u2019s animal care program manager and research committee chair. \u201cI can\u2019t rave enough about Dr. Frick and her students and how this has been going. Being the first is always sort of make or break, and this experience has us excited to collaborate more in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hailey, one of the project’s two student co-leads, goes to the aquarium three times a week to observe Rex\u2019s and Rudy\u2019s daily routines, interactions, behaviors and preferences with several video cameras aimed at the tanks and an ethogram at the ready. As co-leads, she and Kerri Olzewski\u2014a junior animal studies and psychology student from Wadsworth, Illinois\u2014are responsible for uploading all the student-collected data to Frick\u2019s research drives and making sure all the research shifts are covered.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\u201cI didn\u2019t imagine being in a leadership position like this as a first-year,\u201d Hailey admitted. \u201cI applied for the first-year research associateship<\/a> with Dr. Frick\u2019s lab and was immediately drawn to this when I saw the list of projects. I thought I\u2019d be in the background pulling literature. Having the chance to do research like this is amazing.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Frick said her student team began monitoring Rex and Rudy in February and have already learned a little about the animals\u2014who had been deemed unreleasable because hearing loss had halted their ability to echolocate, a skill dolphins use to communicate, hunt and stay with their pods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seem to be very into pec-rubbing. They will use their two pectoral fins on the sides of their bodies to touch one another,\u201d Frick said. \u201cIt is showing us how they might be using touch to communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two animals is a small sample size for a behavioral analysis such as this, both Frick and Curry explained, but because only two facilities in the country have access to rough-toothed dolphins, any new information gained from Rex and Rudy will deepen the knowledge of the entire scientific community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seven dolphins in total, two rough-toothed and five bottlenose,\u201d Curry said. \u201cTwo of our bottlenose dolphins are also hard of hearing, so it would be wonderful if down the line we could do a study to find out how they sustained the hearing loss that made it impossible for them to survive in the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until then, Frick\u2019s team will continue studying Rex and Rudy through the summer and will conclude this research project in two years, Frick explained.<\/p>\n

Hailey\u2019s glad to be a part of a project that puts her one step closer to her dream of becoming an animal trainer. \u201cI saw Dolphin Tale<\/em> and fell in love. For my 12th birthday my mom brought me down to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and I\u2019ve been hooked ever since. I met about a dozen animal care specialists who went to Eckerd College over the years, and my mom jokes that I chose my college when I was 8,\u201d Hailey remembered. \u201cGetting to do research at a facility I consider home feels fantastic.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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