Remember, less than 100 years ago people were hanged for saying a black man had rights or was "Human." Let's not forget where we came from... and where we're trying to go.
They've also hearded people towards sharks to distract the sharks from their food sources and hidden young. Don't assume they're entirely altruistic, they do realize that we feed them.
Scientists studying dolphin behavior have suggested they could be the most intelligent creatures on Earth after humans, saying the size of their brains in relation to body size is larger than that of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, and their behaviors suggest complex intelligence./q]
Two problems here:
1) What percentage of that brain is used for sonic signal processing? How much for abstract cognition?
2) The tainting of the observed behavior by the observer's preconceptions, emotions, and other filters make it hard to separate the observer from the observed. This has always been a problem in human anthropology and trying to study a non-human organism provides far worse problems. [/blockquote]
Dolphins don't know the difference between sand and water. Since so many dolphins beach themselves, they are ignorant of their environment. They have eyes, they can see sand. I think they are not as smart as a dog. Dogs know the difference between sand and water.
15 years from now, we will have dolphins harvesting coral on our coral plantations, singing sad dolphin songs.
You mean the fishing villages in Japan that are primarily Korean or the government, which is trying to ban the process.
There are many articles concerning dolphin on human as well as dolphin on dolphin violence out there. There's a reason why people want the practice of "dolphin therapy" banned, and it has nothing to do with exploitation or harming dolphins.
joefarah
Jan 6, 2010