Dolphins using tools, teaching each other. And so it begins.
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This shouldn't be surprising. The US Navy has an anti-terror dolphin and sea lion team that can deploy anywhere in the world within 72 hours. We've been helping them learn the whole time!
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i saw the best evidence for dolphin intelligence recently in a documentary... it was basically two dolphins being taught the concept of "invent a new trick" (they didn't say HOW they taught it, damnit!). so the dolphins had to think what to do, not just repeat some old trick. so when they got the hand signal to invent a new trick, they stopped for a moment and seemed to talk to each other with clicky sounds... then proceeded to do a synchronized trick they had never been observed to do before. so they obviously had to communicate to each other what they were going to do.
blew my mind. almost don't really believe it.. i mean, non-human animals taking instructions and then talking to each other and coming up with a creative, coordinated, playful trick on their own? WTF.
ahh and here's the video, skip to about 9:30. the whole documentary is great though.
also, i just watched the second episode of BBC's Ocean Giants, and some dolphin researcher said that in about 5 years we should be communicating with the dolphins. lol. we're going to crack their language or something... would be incredible but i doubt it hah.
blew my mind. almost don't really believe it.. i mean, non-human animals taking instructions and then talking to each other and coming up with a creative, coordinated, playful trick on their own? WTF.
ahh and here's the video, skip to about 9:30. the whole documentary is great though.
also, i just watched the second episode of BBC's Ocean Giants, and some dolphin researcher said that in about 5 years we should be communicating with the dolphins. lol. we're going to crack their language or something... would be incredible but i doubt it hah.
XiaNaphryz said:This shouldn't be surprising. The US Navy has an anti-terror dolphin and sea lion team that can deploy anywhere in the world within 72 hours. We've been helping them learn the whole time!
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I've always figured them to be intelligent because they don't truly act like wild animals. I've been around untrained dolphins before and they are more than happy to let you touch them and even play. Try doing that with a bear or a lion.
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