Diana Reiss Biography

Diana Reiss’s research focuses on cetacean cognition communication comparative animal cognition and the evolution of intelligence.
She pioneered the use of underwater keyboards with dolphins to investigate their cognitive and communicative abilities and provide them with more degrees of choice and control.
Reiss and her colleagues demonstrated that bottlenose dolphins and an Asian elephants possess the rare ability for mirror self-recognition previously thought to be restricted to humans and great apes.
Her efforts also involve the rescue and rehabilitation of stranded marine mammals including the successful rescue of Humphrey the humpback whale from San Francisco Bay waters.
Her advocacy work in conservation and animal welfare includes the protection of dolphins in the tuna-fishing industry and efforts to bring an end to the killing of dolphins in the drive hunts in Japan.

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