Life's Science: They call him Flipper! Flipper! Faster than light-ning.

Monday, January 21, 2008

They call him Flipper! Flipper! Faster than light-ning.

Well, actually, his name is Deke. He's an adolescent dolphin, living at Sea World San Diego. He flunked out of the Navy and ended up at Sea World, where he works at Dolphin Encounter.

Jordan got this photo of me telling Deke to jump.

Good boy!

2 comments:

The Silly Witch said...: That's a great pic. I had no idea you were a dolphin trainer on the side!; January 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Rowdy said...: secret dolphin lover....; January 21, 2008 at 8:46 PM

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