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September 07, 2011
Does Dolphin Intelligence Hint at Possible Type of ET Life?[/color]
6a00d8341bf7f753ef0133f0839acd970b-500wi In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams noted that "On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish."
Following on Adams, Carl Sagan brilliantly observed that, "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to 50 words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"Carl Sagan was right!" said Lori Marino, a biopsychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We still don't understand the natural language system of dolphins and whales. We know a little bit more now, and there have been investigators working on this for decades, but we haven't really cracked the code."
A Spanish researcher and a Paraguayan scientist have presented one of the world's most complete and detailed studies of the repertoire of sounds used by bottlenose dolphins to communicate.
The scientific community had thought that whistles were the main means to communicate , and were unaware of the importance and use of burst-pulsed sounds. Researchers from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI), based in Sardinia (Italy) have now shown that these sounds are vital to the animals' social life and mirror their behavior.
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September 07, 2011
Does Dolphin Intelligence Hint at Possible Type of ET Life?[/color]
6a00d8341bf7f753ef0133f0839acd970b-500wi In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams noted that "On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish."
Following on Adams, Carl Sagan brilliantly observed that, "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to 50 words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"Carl Sagan was right!" said Lori Marino, a biopsychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We still don't understand the natural language system of dolphins and whales. We know a little bit more now, and there have been investigators working on this for decades, but we haven't really cracked the code."
A Spanish researcher and a Paraguayan scientist have presented one of the world's most complete and detailed studies of the repertoire of sounds used by bottlenose dolphins to communicate.
The scientific community had thought that whistles were the main means to communicate , and were unaware of the importance and use of burst-pulsed sounds. Researchers from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI), based in Sardinia (Italy) have now shown that these sounds are vital to the animals' social life and mirror their behavior.
CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/2djTV6/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/09/does-dolphin-intelligence-hint-at-possible-type-of-et-life.html