Lori Marino is the founder and executive director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and founder and President of the Whale Sanctuary Project. She was formerly a senior lecturer at Emory University for 20 years and faculty affiliate at the Emory Center for Ethics. She is also a Creative Affiliate at the Safina Center.

Life

Along with

Diana Reiss Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professor of psychology at Hunter College and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York. Reiss's research has focused ...

, she co-authored the first study showing mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins in 2001. She has been involved with work in dolphin and whale neuroanatomy for thirty years, showing that the brains of dolphins became as complex as those of great apes through a different neuroanatomical route. Susan Casey described her work in her book ''Voices in the Ocean'', about dolphins. She interviewed Marino who told her about how dolphons have more complex brains than humans. She has also been interviewed in the documentary

Blackfish Blackfish is a common name for the following species of fish, dolphins, and whales: Fish * Alaska blackfish, (''Dallia pectoralis''), an Esocidae from Alaska, Siberia and the Bering Sea islands * Black fish (''Carassioides acuminatus'') a cyprin ...

and the 2021 Netflix Documentary 'Seaspiracy'.

References

External links

The Whale Sanctuary ProjectInside the mind of a killer whale: A Q+A with the neuroscientist from ‘Blackfish’
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