HI MarMammers, Before my 2 quick announcements, I thank the researchers who put our MarMam network together back in the day. Your continuing willingness to host this site has contributed to our mutual collaborations in countless ways. We all share a cause. I much appreciate your continued devotion to it. *New publication on free-ranging dolphin healing linked to immunity. *Published in the Biopsychosocial Nature of Dolphins, special edition in the journal Animals. *Abstract* Wound healing has been studied extensively in humans and lab animals, but not in dolphins. Severe human wounds require extensive medical intervention to avoid infection. Yet severe wounds on free-ranging dolphins heal without infection in microbial-infested seas, a compelling distinction. An eye-witnessed shark attack on a yearling bottlenose dolphin yielded 8 years of macroscopic markers on a live recuperating dolphin by known days of healing. In total, 106 healing histories were generated from the author’s 20-year ethological study of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (*Tursiops truncatus*) in St. Petersburg, FL, USA. Results show that unaided wound healing at sea involves two consecutive macroscopic pigment patterns, wounds form preliminary seals by 4–8 weeks, and most heal to atrophic scars that remodel for years. Macroscopic markers in live recuperating dolphins show strong matches with macroscopic wound patterns in stranded Fraser’s dolphins (*Lagenodelphis hosei*), demonstrating links between macroscopic markers and immune activities. This is the first study to link macroscopic markers visible as healing-related pigment patterns to immunity. Macroscopic markers are conservation tools for tracking anthropogenic impacts on increased susceptibility to infection at sea and could lead to novel therapies in veterinary and human regenerative medicine. [paper attached] Weaver, A. 2026. Macroscopic Markers of Dolphin Healing at Sea Linked to Immunity. *Animals **2026*, *16*, 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani16020305. *Call for papers. * I am looking for dolphin researchers who can join us on the special issue entitled the Biopsychosocial Nature of Dolphins in the journal Animals. This edition would be enhanced with specific articles but I am open to suggestions. One article would focus on “a day in the life” of a dolphin of any species. This would be a time budget-type of paper to show what appears to be very important and less important in terms of how dolphins invest their time at sea. What is important to them? A second article would focus on dolphin social complexity. Consider the many provocative comparisons of dolphins and apes. There are two sides to such questions… How do we currently position the comparisons? What advancements have we discovered about dolphins through acoustic and cognitive research? A third article would focus on anecdotes. Dolphin researchers like you and I have seen many intriguing moments that do not qualify as data because they are too infrequent. Many of us “were raised” on the anecdote from back when everyone smoked and you could smoke in public venues like aquariums: A young captive dolphin calf watched a zoo visitor exhale cigarette smoke as he gazed at the dolphins through a viewing window in a tank/pool. The young dolphin left, got a mouthful of milk from its mother, and returned to blow milk back to the smoker at the window. Stimulus enhancement? Imitation? Such observations do not yet qualify as data but are nonetheless profound sources of hypotheses for the future. PLEASE send me your anecdotes to annstats54@gmail.com. A fourth article would address new technologies in stranding studies. For example, how do the new forensic filters on cameras impact our work tracking stranded dolphins? A fifth article would describe the current computer programs for matching identifying photos and how AI may change that…. How far have we come but where are we going? Ann Weaver *Upon seeing the shore, the little wave cried, **"We're going to crash!"* So the sea whispered back, "*Don't you know you are not a wave, little one? **You are part of the ocean."* *Ann* Ann Weaver, Ph.D. Dolphin Behaviorist & Biostatistician annstats54@gmail.com *Discreet, Friendly Data Analysis - Even Friendlier Prices! * GoodNaturedStatistics.com <http://goodnaturedstatistics.com/> *Website: *https://www.dolphinsdigital.org/ *MDPI/Guest Editor: Biopsychosocial Nature of Dolphins https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/X3D9H45O45 <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/X3D9H45O45>* *Book: in press. Dolphin Healing at Sea without Medical Intervention: The Art & Science of Skin as the Faithful Canvas* *Book: Secrets behind the Dolphin Smile – 25 Amazing Things Dolphins Do (* https://www.dolphinsdigital.org/store/) *Book: Why Dolphins Jump - A Picture Book of the Acrobats of the Sea (* https://www.dolphinsdigital.org/store/) *Book: Good-natured Statistics in Everyday Language with Animal Behavior *( http://www.goodnaturedstatistics.com/) *Book: Clinical Biostatistics and Epidemiology Made Ridiculously Simple *( https://www.medmaster.net/book-category/basic-sciences/)