Deep thinkers
After reading this article, i was left awed and somewhat stunned. I bet if humanity ever pass on, our inheritors for the title of the most intelligent beings on Earth could possibly be the dolphins.
Anyway, how does this relate to the site theme? Well. :)
They developed a sign language to communicate with the dolphins, and the results were remarkable. Not only do the dolphins understand the meaning of individual words, they also understand the significance of word order in a sentence. (One of their star dolphins, Akeakamai, has learned a vocabulary of more than 60 words and can understand more than 2,000 sentences.)
Particularly impressive is the dolphins’ relaxed attitude when new sentences are introduced. For example, the dolphins generally responded correctly to "touch the frisbee with your tail and then jump over it". This has the characteristics of true understanding, not rigid training.
Wrong. I just read an article few weeks ago where the scientists/researchers has indicated that Dolphins are generally dumb and they tend to smile because their brain’s endorphins were pretty high, leaving them in state of high all the time.
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Comment by The One and Only Ridor — September 11, 2006 @ 4:17 am
Haha! Ridor, that’s an intriuging counter-theory too! ;-)
Comment by Dictatorial Editor — September 11, 2006 @ 5:32 am