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Originally posted by Gingerbread Murder
Okay, okay. So we've established that dolphins are definitely very intelligent, and questionably noble, buuuuuut....Just 'cause I can, I'm gonna ask if there's any evidence that they're still evolving. I mean, if there are so many intelligent creatures that actually rival humans, isn't it also a factor that they could eventually wage war on us and take over? Kind of umm...relative to uh...Survival of the Fittest and natural selection?
[edit on 26-11-2004 by Gingerbread Murder]
Originally posted by an3rkist
I, however, think intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with the size of the brain.
Originally posted by an3rkist
If you're going to base intelligence on the size of the brain than saying the orca is the smartest in animal in the sea is wrong
Originally posted by merka
www.whalewatch.co.nz... - NORWEGIAN MAN ACCUSES DOLPHIN OF ATTEMPTED RAPE
Norway's top-selling daily Verdens Gang on Tuesday quoted the 28-year-old as saying that the dolphin apparently mistook him for a female after swimming alongside him in the sea off Farsund
Greater intelligence comes with greater stupidity I suppose!!!
[edit on 26-11-2004 by merka]
Originally posted by Gingerbread Murder
Either way, that's strange. I remember having seen a site with instructions on how to have sex with dolphins. People have too much time on their hands, apparently?
Originally posted by Megalodon
Originally posted by Volkgeister
I have heard stories of mantarays protecting swimmers from sharks....so isn't really that amazing
Interesting I have never heard of this. What I am trying to figure out is how a manta ray can have any sound defense against the shark. I mean dolphins are fast, intelligent and have powerful beaks which they can ram sharks with. What does a manta have?
I think that dolphins are indeed one of, if not the most, intelligent creatures in the sea, with the next most notable candidate being the orca. Orca have sophisticated hunting strategies and intricate social order, I find them remarkable (if not brutish).
Originally posted by Volkgeister
The manta didn't attack the sharks, but it shelted an injured man on its back whilst it was been attacked by sharks, and "swam" towards a nearby island.
Apparently. What where you doing at such a site?
Originally posted by toolmaker
well, dolphins are also related to the Orca family, which eats great whites for snacks.
Dolphins have long had close relations with humanity, in light of the fishing industry. But lets not get carried away, dolphins are known to gang rape each other, have attacked humans, have violent tendancies as well. Just like humans.
Originally posted by Megalodon
Originally posted by Volkgeister
I have heard stories of mantarays protecting swimmers from sharks....so isn't really that amazing
Interesting I have never heard of this. What I am trying to figure out is how a manta ray can have any sound defense against the shark. I mean dolphins are fast, intelligent and have powerful beaks which they can ram sharks with. What does a manta have?