When you are a marine biologist do you get to work with dolphins?

Answer 1

I'm a zoologist, but it doesnt guarentee I can work with the animals I would prefer to work with. Being a Marine Biologist means you would study and understand all working of Marine Biology. This means microrginisms, nutrient content, water currents, ecosystems, plantlife, foodwebs, and numerous other intractions and species. You could be a marine biologist and spend all day every day in a lab, examining dolphin poop.
What you are doing and how involved you are depends on your level of education, and your specialty.
If you are interested ONLY in handling and working with dolphins, you're best looking into marine wild life and rescue services - start as a volunteer and work your way up the ladder into a paid position.
There are lots of conservation projects that use volunteer services as well, and I highly reccomend one of these!
PhD.s can usually involve themselves in tagging and handling animals of their research, but this isnt in a cuddly long term contact sort of scale. It also means 4 years of an undergraduate degree, getting a decent GRE score (if you're in the US) and a 3-6 year research project to acquire a PhD.
Most animal related scientists look down on using animals solely for entertainment - such as shows or show cases - outwith a zoo environment (since most zoo's are involved in conservation efforts). But looking into being a handler is also an option.

Answer 2

Ummm...Could be. But there are many other things that marine biologists do such as reasearch. If you want to simply work with dolphins then I would suggest looking at being an animal trainer.

Answer 3

Most likely, YES. Along with an array of other underwater creatures.

Answer 4

yep as well as thousands of other species