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Most team-based games have some kind of protection against spawn camping, such as a one-way door that only allows players to leave the spawn area, permanent AI defences or perhaps a timer which kills enemies if they spend too long around the spawn area. Games with capturable spawn points will often leave some spawn points without this sort of ...
1CC Abbreviation of one-credit completion or one-coin clear. To complete an arcade (or arcade-style) game without using continues. [1]1-up An object that gives the player an extra life (or attempt) in games where the player has a limited number of chances to complete a game or level.
Marine Studios hired a former sea lion trainer from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus named Adolf Frohn to train the dolphins to play with inner tubes on command. Frohn had no previous experience working with dolphins. He worked with a two-year-old male dolphin named Flippy beginning in September 1949.
Many of these places are more than just dolphinariums; the list includes themeparks, marine mammal parks, zoos or aquariums that may also have more than one species of dolphin. The current status of parks marked with an asterisk (*) is unknown; these parks may have closed down, moved, changed names or no longer house any dolphins. Due to the ...
The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP) is a program administered by the U.S. Navy which studies the military use of marine mammals - principally bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions - and trains animals to perform tasks such as ship and harbor protection, mine detection and clearance, and equipment recovery.
The Navy gets some of its dolphins from the Gulf of Mexico. Military dolphins were used by the U.S. Navy during the First and Second Gulf Wars, [11] and their use dates back to the Vietnam War. [12] About 75 dolphins were in the program circa 2007, [13] and around 70 dolphins and 30 sea lions were reported to be in the program in 2019. [12]
The Blue and White Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is one of the most common dolphin species in the Mediterranean: ships encounter an average of one every 4 km (or rather a group of ten every 39 km). [2] It's a small dolphin, measuring around 2 m and weighing 80 to 100 kg, and feeds on fish and squid.
In a trial, pairs of dolphins were instructed to swim across their lagoons and press an underwater button, with each dolphin assigned a button. In some trials, both dolphins were given the command at the same time; in other trials, one dolphin would receive the command up to 20 seconds before the other.