1.   Federal law requires that captive dolphins get about four times as much space as they now have at Steinhart.

2.   Federal rules on how to handle captive dolphins, completed last year, were suspended after swim centers objected to some provisions.

3.   From research with captive dolphins, researchers had already found that they seldom use their signature whistles when they are all close together.

4.   I personally would love there not to be any captive dolphins.

5.   Officials also said the aquarium at the Hotel Delfines -- Dolphins in Spanish -- fails to comply with Peruvian environmental regulations for captive dolphins.

6.   Several requests came from Florida, home to the largest population of captive dolphins.

7.   Some captive dolphins, says Janik, develop calls that incorporate man-made sounds.

8.   Some tossed out names of renegades with long histories of cutting fences to free captive dolphins.

9.   Swimming with captive dolphins is becoming a huge, and controversial, tourist draw at a number of resorts in and out of the United States.

10.   Unlike traditional researchers who work with captive dolphins under controlled conditions, young marine biologist Kathleen Dudzinski and her team must work on animal time.