Dolphin intelligence experiment

[tsukishima_shizuku]

I read this book in elementary school in the mid-90s in USA and I believe it was fairly newly published at the time. It was a middle-grade chapter book with a blue cover.

I don't remember a lot about it but parts of it were told from the point of view of a dolphin (or some type of cetacean) undergoing intelligence testing. Then at some point the dolphin might have escaped from captivity. That's all I remember...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse?

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately no that isn't the one. This would have been published at least a few years earlier and was from the cetaceans' point of view.

[calzephyr]

This is the kind of search where playing around with the Advanced Search on Worldcat might be helpful - http://www.worldcat.org

You have a keyword, subject and date range. I did a quick look for fiction dolphin books published between 1990 and 2000, but I mostly got picture books if I chose juvenile audience. Your mileage may vary though!

[greendryad]

Anne McCaffrey writes a dolphin book that sounds like this. Dolphins of Pern, I believe. I wouldn't classify it as middle-grade book, although a middle schooler could read it.