Dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals, so how smart are they? Here are a few facts, have a read and judge for yourself
1. The dolphin Moko in New Zealand has been observed guiding a female Pygmy Sperm Whale together with her calf out of shallow water where they had stranded several times.
2. They have also been seen protecting swimmers from sharks by swimming circles around the swimmers or charging the sharks to make them go away.
3. Dolphins also display culture, something long believed to be unique to humans (and possibly other primate species).
4. In May 2005, a discovery in Australia found Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) teaching their young to use tools. They cover their snouts with sponges to protect them while foraging.
5.Bottlenose dolphins use a superior hunter technique "mud-ring feeding"
6. Dolphins are social, living in pods of up to a dozen individuals. In places with a high abundance of food, pods can merge temporarily, forming a superpod, such groupings may exceed 1,000 dolphins. Individuals communicate using a variety of clicks, whistle-like sounds and other vocalizations
It is similarities of humans to dolphins are uncanny, resembalances such as having a sense of culture, passing useful skills on to their young, having a language to communicate with (scientists also theorise that if dolphins did have vocal cords like humans they would be able to learn the human language relatively easily) and a super hunting techique, does all of this not sound similar to the human civilization when we were still young?
- Michael
- Michael
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