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CASTAWAY: Electronically connected.

A marine mammal helpline facility opened a dolphin "chat line" of sorts, hoping to teach a deaf dolphin's unborn calf to communicate. Castaway, as the stranded Atlantic bottlenose dolphin is named, has been recovering at the Marine Mammal Conservancy. "We asked ourselves: How do we get the calf to speak when we have a deaf mother?" said Robert Lingenfelser, the conservancy's president. They decided to electronically connect Castaway's habitat with a lagoon at Dolphins Plus, a research and interactive educational facility a few miles down the Keys Overseas Highway. Underwater speakers and microphones were installed at both locations and connected via phone lines.

COMPILED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN

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