Lessons of miraculous dolphin healing powers What miracles is
Mother Nature hiding from us? Look no further than the
bottlenose dolphin for a little bit of inspiration. At least
that’s what a researcher at the Georgetown University Medical
Center suggests. Michael Zasloff has published a letter in the
July 21 issue of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, in
which he recounts several documented incidents of serious
injuries to dolphins, presumably inflicted by sharks. These
bites, some larger than a basketball, healed in weeks without
leaving the dolphins disfigured, without causing them apparent
pain and without becoming visibly infected. “If I saw this in a
human being, I wouldn’t believe it,” Zasloff said. “It should
awe us. You have an animal that has evolved in the ocean without
hands or legs, which swims faster than we can, has intelligence
that perhaps equals our social and emotional complexity, and its
healing is almost alien compared to what we are capable of.”
Zasloff has always been interested