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	Cetacean intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cetaceans include whales, porpoises, and dolphins, and while all are broadly considered intelligent, dolphins have generated the most attention as their capabilities appear to be of a different order than that of their relatives.
		The dolphin is a voluntary breather, even in sleep, with the result that veterinary anesthesia of dolphins is impossible, as it would result in asphyxiation.
		Dolphin brain stem transmission time is faster than that normally found in humans, and is roughly equivalent to the speed found in rats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolphin_intelligence (3526 words)

	Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises, famous for their intelligence, apparent compassion, and joy.
		Dolphins are often regarded as one of the most intelligent animal species, though it is hard to say just how intelligent dolphins are as straightforward comparisons of species' relative intelligence are complicated by differences in sensory apparatus, response modes, and nature of cognition.
		Most dolphins have acute eyesight, both in and out of the water, and their sense of hearing is superior to that of humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolphin (2592 words)

	Dolphin Intelligence
		Intelligence tests are very difficult to conduct or compare different species, so when we look at the intelligence of a dolphin or other animal compared to the human's it is almost always unfair because we are testing that animal's intelligence in our environment.
		The study of dolphin intelligence is very interesting because we are still on the verge of discovery, there is much we don't understand and much we still have to learn.
		Dolphins may not be as intelligent as humans, but there is not really anyway to measure it at this point, maybe, sometime in the future, we will be the ones learning the tricks...
	www.currybean.i8.com /custom2.html (372 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| Deep thinkers
		All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish.
		Another dolphin mimicked the scraping of the pool's observation window by a diver, even copying the sound of the air-demand valve of the scuba gear while releasing a stream of bubbles from his blowhole.
		Dolphins gradually build up a network of relationships, ranging from the strong bond between a mother and calf, to casual "friendships" with other community members.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,989714,00.html (1747 words)

	Welcome to The Dolphin Place - Facts about Dolphins/Whales
		The dolphin fish, is neither a dolphin nor a porpoise.
		Dolphins once were hunted commercially, especially for the small quantity of valuable oil extracted from parts of the head and used to lubricated delicate watch mechanisms.
		Because of the ability of dolphins to learn and perform complex tasks in captivity, their continuous communications with one another, and their ability, through training, to approximate the sounds of a few human words, some investigators have suggested that the animals might be capable of learning a true language and communicating with humans.
	thedolphinplace.com /facts.html (1493 words)

	Spirit of the Dolphin: Swim Journeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although dolphin intelligence is no longer underestimated, their awareness and consciousness often is. Asking that kind of intimacy with very conscious beings demands an honoring and understanding of who they are and how we can best relate in a respectful way to them.
		Swimming with wild dolphins means you meet them on their turf, your experience totally dependent on their choice of how, when, and how long they will have an intimate experience with you.
		Facilitators range from people who consider their work with dolphins a "calling" and for whom it is a primary focus, to those who are healers or therapists of some kind who desire to take people on a dolphin journey as an adjunct experience.
	www.dolphin-spirit.com /SwimJourneys/choice_guidelines.html (1609 words)

	Cyrin's Dolphin Cove
		Dolphins have a remarkably broad hearing range, capable of hearing sounds from the upper bass and midranges of our own hearing (beginning at around 150Hz) all the way up to ultrasonic frequencies (150kHz), which they use for their sonar.
		Dolphins are quite heavy for their size (the average weight being nearly 200kg for a height of 3m) but are not nearly as chubby looking as seals or even whales.
		Dolphins (along with humans) are one of the few species on the planet that engage in sexual intercourse for both reproduction and for pleasure.
	www.furry.org.au /Vulpie/dolphins.html (1210 words)

	Dolphin Intelligence
		Dolphins have more convolution than even healthy, intelligent humans.There possibly might be another difference in the dolphin brain; they might use the two hemispheres of their brain completely separately.
		Dolphins are full of practical jokes and have been seen plucking a bird's tail feathers from behind, pulling fish by the tail and tossing manta rays in their mouths like frisbees.
		Dolphins are also extremely sensual mammals, caressing each other constantly, and are the only other species to have intercourse when the female is not in estrus; in other words, simply because it feels good.
	www.goddesslife.com /intelligence.html (769 words)

	dolphins, as a form of alien intelligence
		Lilly's claims for dolphin intelligence are supported by the remarkable learning skills and playful, inventive behavior of these animals.
		In recent years, researchers have observed bottlenose dolphins and beluga whales in captivity creating underwater rings and helices of air for their own amusement.
		They may serve as an indication that high intelligence is not always, or even often, accompanied by a significant level of technology (see intelligence, nature of).
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/dolphins.html (427 words)

	DOLPHINS
		Another characteristic used to determine the level of intelligence is the amount of folding in the cerebral cortex, the portion of the mammalian brain associated with thinking and reasoning.
		Dolphins and many species of toothed whales use their sense of hearing in a very sophisticated behavior known as echolocation.
		Dolphins are characteristically very social creatures and often depend on social interaction for the purposes of hunting prey, defense and reproduction.
	www.earthtrust.org /wlcurric/dolphins.html (4215 words)

	Whales on the Net - Dolphin Intelligence
		These dolphins have also been kept in the same tanks with older dolphins that were caught too young to have learned such a code, further reducing their chances for exposure to any natural communication code.
		Because of the Navy's classification of its dolphin program we can only say that, in public, dolphin communication research, today, is still at the state of development Helen Keller (1880-1968) was when Ann Sullivan (died 1936) first attempted to break through the significant barriers Keller's deafness and blindness posed for her intellectual development.
		Further in the future, dolphins trained in this human whistled language may then be able to act as translators or intermediaries in open ocean research with feral dolphins that use their own natural communication code.
	whales7.tripod.com /policies/levasseur/levass2f.html (1612 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Open Forum :: Human Intelligence vs Dolphin Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dolphins live in the sea; humans, on the other hand, live on land, in the air, under the sea and in space.
		Dolphins are reasonably cute (each to his/ her own, lol).
		Dolphins, depsite their stereo-typed image can in fact be very violent.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-1685.html (510 words)

	Whales on the Net - Dolphin Intelligence
		In the early history of research on dolphins there were three experiments which stood out as minimal indicators of dolphin mental abilities.
		These three experiments were successful as demonstrations of dolphin mental abilities and the only limitations demonstrated in the studies were the perceptions of humans, their experimental designs, and the interpretations that were in vogue for the period.
		The resulting question for the reader to answer is whether the Navy's classification of their dolphin program, during Batteau's ground-breaking research, was a disservice to the study of animal behavior considering the changes seen in that area of study since 1967.
	www.whales.org.au /published/levasseur/levass2a.html (1715 words)

	DRC - Dolphin Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dolphins often respond to another dolphin whistling by whistling themselves or moving toward the whistler.
		Dolphins are capable of imitating certain sounds very accurately and often learn other dolphins' whistles.
		Although a few dolphins have learned to use a simple artificial language consisting of hand gestures or computer-generated whistles, extensive research to date has failed to demonstrate a natural language in dolphins.
	www.dolphins.org /Learn/lmm-dcmm.htm (846 words)

	Case studies: Project Delphis, Dolphin-Operated Kiosks - Elo TouchSystems
		When a dolphin's snout interrupts the infrared beams, the touch is detected by the infrared beam grid and relayed to a Macintosh computer.
		"Dolphins are not particularly interested in abstractions such as geometric patterns or artificial sounds, but they are very interested in video material of other dolphins and in hearing dolphin sounds," Marten said.
		By giving the dolphins more interesting tasks and material on the touchscreen, Marten and his team hope to conduct a series of psychological studies that could also be conducted on primates using similar methods.
	www.elotouch.com /markets/casestudies/dolphins.asp (977 words)

	Dolphins and Man.....Equals? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A dolphin kept in complete captivity (with only human contacts) was trained to raise to the surface, emit a sound when any word was shouted over the surface of the water.
		Dolphins have no prehensile extremities; hence their intelligence has never gone in the direction of manipulating their environment -- their thoughts have been left to develop inward.
		Dolphin Research Center A not-for-profit education and research facility that sustains a pod averaging about 15 dolphins in a natural marine environment.
	www.anandamayi.org /OM/dolphin/use1.htm (3200 words)

	A Blog Around The Clock : Dolphins Are Intelligent!
		Dolphins and whales are dumber than goldfish and don't have the know-how to match a rat, new research from South Africa shows.
		Intelligence has to be defined from the vantage point of that species: what makes ecological and evolutionary sense for that species to be able to do.
		Making a claim of great intelligence for a computer would be valid when judged by those criteria, but the fact that a computer can do one thing that we consider a sign of intelligence (add) very well does not imply great intelligence, it is simply that a computer is a machine built for adding.
	scienceblogs.com /clock/2006/08/dolphins_are_intelligent.php (2669 words)

	Proof of whale and dolphin intelligence
		Wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, are often seen carrying sponges on the ends of their beaks to protect them whilst they forage in the sediments on the seafloor where spiny sea urchins might otherwise hurt them.
		These highly sentient and intelligent animals continue to be killed cruelly and needlessly by whalers, blasted by human loud noise, trapped and suffocated in fishing nets, and captured and removed from their families for our entertainment.
		Deaths in fishing nets and in dolphin hunts are far from humane and may have widespread impacts on the groups and populations left behind.
	www.wdcs.org /dan/publishing.nsf/allnews/239F297BE9A133F380256FC700323B80 (477 words)

	The Realm of The Dolphin
		With this ability, a dolphin could construct a precisely detailed auditory image of its surroundings, from a millimeter-thin wafer nearby to a fish or another dolphin four or five miles away, even in the murkiest of waters.
		Dolphin Alliance is a local citizen's action group established in July 1992 to act as a voice for dolphin and whale rights and protection of their environment.
		Dolphins Plus is at the fore-front of dolphin assisted therapy and also an active member of the Southeast Stranding Network.
	www.treasur.com /dolphins2.htm (763 words)

	Dolphin's World - Information and Facts about Dolphins and Killer Whales
		Dolphins have been interacting with humans for as long as we have known of their existence.
		Dolphins are mammals; they nurse their young from mammary glands.
		The dolphins and humans section is devoted to the relationship between dolphins and humans.
	www.dolphins-world.com (355 words)

	A Comparison of Primate and Dolphin Intelligence as a Metaphor for the Validity of Comparative Studies of Intelligence
		In addition the parietal lobe of dolphins which "makes sense of the senses" is larger than the human parietal and frontal lobes combined (1).
		Both dolphins and chimps live in complex societies in which there is constant alliance formation especially during mating season (4).
		When applied to the evidence of non-human intelligence, the questions becomes whether it is simpler to assume that somehow human beings have transcended their biology and have developed a unique intelligence or that animals with similar anatomy to humans have some intelligence.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper3/Ball3.html (2380 words)

	USS Dolphin (AGSS 555) - Navy Ships
		USS Dolphin (AGSS 555), homeported at the Naval Research and Development (NRaD) facility in San Diego, is the Navy's only operational, diesel-electric, deep-diving, research and development submarine.
		Dolphin can also maintain more extensive onboard laboratory facilities than her deep submersible counterparts.
		USS Dolphin is the Navy's deep diving submarine designed to test advanced submarine structures, sensors, weapons, communications, and machinery systems.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/agss-555.htm (666 words)

	Project Delphis
		By learning all we can about the intelligence of dolphins, and sharing these findings with the global public in an effort to raise people's awareness about these animals, it is hoped this information will further dolphin conservation efforts worldwide.
		Their design is dolphin safe: infrared beam production and sensing electronics are in the lab, and a "reflector frame" on the dolphin side of the underwater window bends the beams 90 degrees so they run parallel to the window surface.
		The hope is that new insights into dolphin intelligence will motivate humans to protect these amazing mammals in their natural ocean habitats throughout the world.
	www.earthtrust.org /delphis.html (1951 words)

	Dolphin Intelligence
		One doesn't have to spend to much time around dolphins to suspect that they are adept to learning new things, dealing with new situations, are creative, have great mental acuteness and comprehension.
		The morning after, when the trainer reentered the water, that dolphin was there to wreak its revenge with a blow of equal intensity.
		A similar example of dolphins disciplining trainers involved a female roothtoothed dolphin who frequently solicited stroking from her trainer.
	www.angelfire.com /nj4/intellegence (551 words)

	Discovering Whales - Dolphin Research
		New Zealand Dolphins Earthwatch volunteers observe and document interaction between humans and dusky dolphins in the near-shore waters of South Island.
		Exploring Dolphin Intelligence EarthCorps volunteers will continue to address dolphin intelligence by trying to answer a series of questions.
		The Wild Dolphin Project Studying the life history and communication system of a resident group of free-ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/discover/DOLPHINS/dolpr.html (313 words)

	Dolphin Intelligence. \| MetaFilter
		Dolphins have been known to display almost all of the qualities which we would consider uniquely human, qualities that we would consider a mark of ‘higher’ intelligence.
		They are tool users, they are highly creative (perhaps even artistic), they enjoy recreational and social activities, from surfing (either on waves or around the prow of boats) to sex, and they have proven time and time again that they are self-aware.
		I'm not disputing that dolphins are more intelligent than animals that can't do anything with any tools, but I'm simply saying that I don't see how they are more intelligent than wolves, monkeys, etc. that also have social groups and play.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/54520 (2610 words)

	mindbodytravel.com
		As you carefully place a surfboard, a ball, and a Frisbee in the habitat, the dolphin Akeakamai ("lover of wisdom" in Hawaiian) intently watches Dr. Louis Herman (KBMML director and University of Hawaii professor).
		Your interest in dolphin behavior and concern for their future is an important part of that legacy.
		Additionally, you will help reveal how dolphins monitor their visual and acoustic environments, their sense of self-awareness, and the degree to which they can imitate the behavior of another dolphin or a human.
	www.mindbodytravel.com /dolphinintelligence.htm (555 words)

	Dolphin Intelligence @ www.ezboard.com
		To talk about dolphins in general, but not to advertise.
		To prove whatever your point is on the intelligence of them.
		To prove your point, or whatever it is that has to do with their intelligence that you would like to say.
	p203.ezboard.com /bdolphinintelligence (293 words)

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