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Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

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Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

This intriguing extract is taken from Pod by Laline Paull, a novel told from the perspective of a spinner dolphin which is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club

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Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

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Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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A dolphin swims in New York's East River, March 13, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E93E089M01

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Dolphins spotted swimming in New York City’s Bronx River

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PD30RR Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), swimming together, underwater view, Tonga, Western, Fiji

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Web of blood vessels helps protect whales’ brains while swimming

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A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Pacific Ocean off the island Rurutu in French Polynesia

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Whale songs can spread between groups nearly 8000 kilometres apart

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

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A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

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Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

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Bottlenose dolphins being fed

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Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

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Artistic reconstruction of Rododelphis stamatiadisi

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Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil relative of killer whales had teeth that suggest it ate small fish rather than large marine mammals

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Orcas are spreading further into the Arctic Ocean as sea ice melts

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Risso’s dolphins have invented rapid spin-dive technique for hunting

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The Amazon's pink river dolphin population is in free fall

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Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean

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