Dolphins Still Smart As Fuck.
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raidingparty: 'When a South African neuroscientist published a controversial paper on dolphin brains last year, then capped it by telling the media that the beloved marine mammals are dumber than goldfish, Lori Marino’s inbox was flooded with e-mail.
'“Dolphins are hot-button animals and that paper got a lot of press,” she said. “Journalists were calling me from all over asking, ‘What do you think of this?’” Her answer: not much.
'“The author disregarded decades of work showing very complex cognitive abilities in dolphins,” said Marino. . ."I was floored that his paper saw the light of day,"'
Our criteria for intelligence has always been extraordinarily exclusionary, and any time an animal that we don't like comes close to it, we have the nasty habit of changing our criteria.
Can't concentrate, here, today. Too many people defending their theses. It's makign me want to smoke, and punch things...
I can't even say that it's mostly one or the other. i want to do both, a lot.
Back to work, fuck ye.
raidingparty: 'When a South African neuroscientist published a controversial paper on dolphin brains last year, then capped it by telling the media that the beloved marine mammals are dumber than goldfish, Lori Marino’s inbox was flooded with e-mail.'“Dolphins are hot-button animals and that paper got a lot of press,” she said. “Journalists were calling me from all over asking, ‘What do you think of this?’” Her answer: not much.
'“The author disregarded decades of work showing very complex cognitive abilities in dolphins,” said Marino. . ."I was floored that his paper saw the light of day,"'
Our criteria for intelligence has always been extraordinarily exclusionary, and any time an animal that we don't like comes close to it, we have the nasty habit of changing our criteria.
Can't concentrate, here, today. Too many people defending their theses. It's makign me want to smoke, and punch things...
I can't even say that it's mostly one or the other. i want to do both, a lot.
Back to work, fuck ye.
