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Delicious Tursiops

“What do they feel like?” asks the blond woman in a purple and black wet suit who wears the Madonna mike. “A hot dog!” chirps a small girl in a pink dress. And it’s true, I think, brushing the top of a gaping snout as I dangle my limp fry over the deep, pink throat guarded by a snapping jaw of needle-teeth—they do feel very much like a hot dog.

Orion article about dolphins, mainly charting the pursuit of them by idiosyncratic neuropsychologist John C Lilly.