Are dolphins really the second smartest creatures on earth?
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It all depends on how exactly you measure intelligence.\n\nPsychologists have long known, and a small handful of educators are slowly attempting to point out to their hidebound school boards that not every person has the same kind of intelligence, and not everyone's mind works the same way.\n\nJust as some people might be superlative in solving logical problems, working mathematical equations and writing elegant code, but be totally abyssmal in inter-personal relationships, or be incapable of remembering what they were supposed to buy on the way home, there may well be different types of intelligence in the animal kingdom.\n\nFor example, there is a large body of evidence that indicates that camels are actually masters at complex theoretical and practical mathematics.  Their lack of natural curiosity and obstinate, ornery natures tends to restrict the expression of this genius to the real-world practical applications of applied ballistics, and use their talents only for accurately placing fetid gobs of spit.\n\nDolphins are often noted for their large brain size, and their intricate social lives that include clever strategems used in pack hunting of reef fish, but as it turns out reef fish aren't really that difficult to outsmart, and the dolphins don't even use most of their capability for intelligence.  They are afraid it makes them look too dorky, and so they spend most of their time gossipping, discussing which other dolphins are the cutest, what the latest fashions in coral colour are, how cool it would be if someone invented waterproof make-up, Tom Cruise, and other mindless drivel.  Sometimes it just breaks their mother's heart when she thinks of all that wasted talent.\n\nHippos are indeed fairly intelligent, but mostly in the fields of biochemistry and Russian literature.  Because they are rarely exposed to these stimuli, they tend to be very ornery, and work out their frustrations by tearing people and crocodiles in half, and then spreading poo everywhere.  Which, if you read carefully, are also common themes in Russian literature.
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The dolphin's life can be, at times, very confusing. To make this easier to understand, we have made a cycle showing you the dolphins life. Like humans, dolphins are mammals. They give birth to live young. The only mammal that doesn't give birth to live young is the Platypus. Dolphinsare considered as one of the smartest animals in the world!  There life starts out when there babies, and when they grow older they choose which direction that their going to take. Most babies will stay with the pack that their mothers are in. When they are adults, they will find a mate. During the mating season, reproduction will occur.
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animals lack intellegence from my experiences !! however i been doing this model on animal behaviour it claims that animals have two ways of thinking !!\ninnate behaviour (which is genetically inhereted) like a spider is born knowing how to build a web ...etc\nand learnt behaviour (which is obviously learnt): this is what u can teach to an animal like training a dog to respnd to a type of whistle ...etc this varies in animals and more animals are able to learn more/ or less than others !! but intellegence, there is no intellegence there i tihnk. you wouldnt one day wake up and see ur cat has used ur laptop to browse the net and had just regestired on a monthly phone price plane with vodafone and payed using your debit card if u know what i mean
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I bet some dolphin told you that, right?\n\nYeah, I though so. So while we're busy attacking them, the dolphins consolidate their grip on the oceans
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Yes, but not intelligent extraterrestrial life.  At least, not intelligent AND dextrous, and therefore incapable of interstellar travel and communication.\n\nFor example, besides humans, Earth is host to dolphins and whales, both mammals of high and - some would argue - superior intelligence to humans.  But you don't see dolphins or whales building space stations, sending probes throughout the solar system, or producing and watching "American Idol".\n\nI think it's the same on other planets - and only a few, if that.  If there's intelligent life, it's probably stuck where it is, like dolphins and whales are stuck here ("Star Trek IV" notwithstanding).
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I like whales and dolphins. They are magestic and some are huge, not all of them though. I like them so much, I plan to go college to get my doctor's degree so I can study them as a cetologist.
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Dolphins represents knowledge.  And if you a colleting them, you have a strong desire to achieve knowledge!!!!  is that correct in your case!!!!???
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Yes, they are. At least as intelligent as dogs. I had a pet pig when I was a child and she was very smart. I have seen reports of pigs that have been trained to really impressive things- like play piano, but who is to say that trainability equals intelligence. As far as possessing the ability to sense when they are about to be slaughtered- I am not sure about that one. But I can't imagine that when one of them sees a big goony redneck standing over them with a shotgun that they aren't at least concerned.
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Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises. The name is from Ancient Greek δελφίς delphis meaning "with a womb", viz. "a 'fish' with a womb". A group of dolphins can be called a "school" or a "pod".\n\nThe word is used in a few different ways. It can mean:\n\nAny member of the family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins), \nAny member of the families Delphinidae and Platanistoidea (oceanic and river dolphins), \nAny member of the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales; these include the above families and some others), \nUsed casually as a synonym for Bottlenose Dolphin, the most common and familiar species of dolphin. \nIn this article, the second definition is used.\n\nPorpoises (suborder Odontoceti, family Phocoenidae) are thus not dolphins in this sense. Orcas and some related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even though they are called whales in common language.\n\nThere are almost 40 species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (88 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (the Orca). Most species weigh about 50 to 200 kg (110 to 440 lb). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and all are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid.\n\nThe family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene.\n\nSuborder Odontoceti, toothed whales \nFamily Delphinidae, oceanic Dolphins \nGenus Delphinus \nLong-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus capensis \nShort-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis \nGenus Tursiops \nBottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus \nIndo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops aduncus \nGenus Lissodelphis \nNorthern Rightwhale Dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis \nSouthern Rightwhale Dolphin, Lissiodelphis peronii \nGenus Sotalia \nTucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis \nGenus Sousa \nIndo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin, Sousa chinensis \nChinese White Dolphin (the Chinese variant), Sousa chinensis chinensis \nAtlantic Humpbacked Dolphin, Sousa teuszii \nGenus Stenella \nAtlantic Spotted Dolphin, Stenella frontalis \nClymene Dolphin, Stenella clymene \nPantropical Spotted Dolphin, Stenella attenuata \nSpinner Dolphin, Stenella longirostris \nStriped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba \nGenus Steno \nRough-Toothed Dolphin, Steno bredanensis \nGenus Cephalorynchus \nChilean Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus eutropia \nCommerson's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii \nHeaviside's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii \nHector's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori \nGenus Grampus \nRisso's Dolphin, Grampus griseus \nGenus Lagenodelphis \nFraser's Dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei \nGenus Lagenorhyncus \nAtlantic White-Sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus \nDusky Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus \nHourglass Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger \nPacific White-Sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens \nPeale's Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis \nWhite-Beaked Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris \nGenus Orcaella \nAustralian Snubfin Dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni \nIrrawaddy Dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris \nGenus Peponocephalia \nMelon-headed Whale, Peponocephalia electra \nGenus Orcinus \nKiller Whale, Orcinus orca \nGenus Feresa \nPygmy Killer Whale, Feresa attenuata \nGenus Pseudorca \nFalse Killer Whale, Pseudorca crassidens \nGenus Globicephala \nLong-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas \nShort-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus \nFamily Platanistoidea, River Dolphins \nGenus Inia \nBoto (Amazon River Dolphin), Inia geoffrensis \nGenus Lipotes \nChinese River Dolphin (Baiji), Lipotes vexillife \nGenus Platanista \nGanges River Dolphin, Platanista gangetica \nIndus River Dolphin, Platanista minor \nGenus Pontoporia \nLa Plata Dolphin (Franciscana), Pontoporia blainvillei \nSix animals in the family Delphinidae are commonly called "whales"
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Certainly, chances of another intelligent species out there are trmendous. Just a matter of time, before they find us, or we find them.
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Of course it would have a soul. Humans aren't the only things with souls you know and I don't see why a halfbreed wouldn't. I know I'll get made fun of for this, but I think apes, dolphins and whales have the best souls. That is why they are sentient.
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Depends on how you rate power \n\na whale is obviously extremely powerful in its own environment - water - but has little ability to express power on land \n\na dolphin by virtue of its speed in water is also very powerful - pound for pound more so that a whale\n\non land pound for pound cheetahs do very well as do most rodents\n\nlarge primates, bears, elephants and rhinos are also very strong but also very heavy so have absolute strength but pound for pound power is less\n\n\noverall there is no one most powerful mammal because each has adapted to its own environment needs
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Which animal seems to have the best sense of humor?  I supposed the hyena because he is always 'laughing'.  Which one really has it?  Perhaps the dolphin or gorilla.
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Either Dolphins or Gorillas. If you believe Douglas Adams, it's Dolphins, but I think it's gorillas because they have been taught to communicate using sign language.
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Because in that time, monkeys are often thought to be the smartest animal alive.
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A dolphin...cause they mate for life and they are very intelligent too.
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.WHALES AND DOLPHINS:\n\nWhales and Dolphins are marine animals. They live in oceans around the world. Whales and Dolphins come from the same family, CETACEA (sey-tay-sha) . They both breath from a blowhole located at the top of their head. Whales and dolpins are mammals. They are mammals because they have lungs not gills,they have hair not scales , and they also have give live birth and don't lay eggs. There are only about 80 kinds of whales and dolphins that we know of right now.\n\nWHALES:\nWhales are very large animals. They can grow up to 100 ft. or more in length. They can weigh up to 200 tons or more. Whales live in families called pods. These pods vary in numbers and consist of family members and family friends. Whales live in these families their whole life. Group living is safer when other whales or sharks attack. It also makes it easier to find food. Whales are always migrating. They travel to find food, breed and have young.\nWhales do not have eyelids. They rely on thick oily tears to protect their eyes. Whales hear from little holes behind their eyes.\n\nWhales talk to each other by making high pitched sounds like whistles, clicks, squeaks, rattles, and groans.\n\nTo help protect the whales from extinction please DO NOT throw nets, fishing lures, or other fishing gear ocean\n\nDOLPHINS:\nDolphins live with the whales in the oceans. But dolphins come much closer to the shore. They will come as close to the shore as you or I can walk without going under water. Dolphins have teeth.\nLooking at a dolphin you would not think it as a nose, but surprise...it does! They have nostrils called blowholes. Over millions of years of evoloution whales and dolphins nostrils moved to the top of their head. This allows them to breath by surfacing instead of them sticking their whole head out of the water.\nThe first thing a newborn dolphin must do is to go to the surface to breathe. But the baby can not swim so its mother and a another dolphin will help push the baby to the surface for its first breath of air. The baby will be able to swim in about 30 min.\nDolphins are fast swimmers. When a speeding boat passes the bottlenose dolphin, it will start to race out in front . They will take off hitting the water and keep going.\nDolphins navigate by following the hills and mountains of the ocean floor, by tracking the sun, by sensing currents, and by tasting the water along the journey.\nA dolphin's sound probably originated in its nasal passages. These nasal passages are located on the top of the head. Dolphins can make sounds to see what lies ahead. This sense is called echolocations. The dolphins' sound waves hit an object and the echo bounces back. Echolocation sounds are called sprays. Sprays are so strong they can stun another whale. Dolphins don't "point" their melons at any other sealife except their enemies.\n\nSHARKS:\nOut of all the species walking, flying, slithering or swimming, there aren't many who have been around as long, survived as well, or come in so many shapes and kinds as the shark. The earliest evidences of sharks are isolated spines, teeth and scales that appeared about 430 million years ago in the Silurian Period, known as the "Age of Fishes". Sharks have a sleek, streamlined design which helps them swim without using up a lot of energy.They certainly need to conserve their energy because they never really sleep and most of them never stop swimming.\n\nSome sharks are fierce predators, and would be happy to eat you if they encountered you. Almost any shark six feet or longer is a potential danger, but three species have been identified repeatedly in attacks: the Great White Shark, the Tiger Shark and the Bull Shark . All three live world wide, reach large sizes and eat large prey such as marine mammals or sea turtles. But most sharks never grow longer than five feet and never even see anyone with legs and arms anyway. People kill thousands more sharks every year than sh