Dolphins 'are non-human persons'

[Apache]

Mmmn, this should cause a little concern in Japan

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/dolphins-are-non-huma...

[Eric Mc]

I always knew Flipper was trying to tell us something.

[carmonk]

Silly phraseology aside it seems reasonable.

[Northern Munkee]

There was a sketch on the Daily Show about performing Killer Whales being emancipated from slavery at Seaworld, under the 13th amendment to the US constitution on last nights show, very funny. You won't be able to walk a dog on a lead/leash next was it's satirical point.

[Apache]

"She said: "We went from seeing the dolphin/whale brain as being a giant amorphous blob that doesn't carry a lot of intelligence and complexity to not only being an enormous brain but an enormous brain with an enormous amount of complexity, and a complexity that rivals our own. It's different in the way it's put together but in terms of the level of complexity it's very similar to the human brain.""

so.......complex then

[General Bilko]

Eric Mc said:

I always knew Flipper was trying to tell us something.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"?

[mattviatura]

General Bilko said:

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"?

Carp joke.

[Eric Mc]

General Bilko said:

Eric Mc said:

I always knew Flipper was trying to tell us something.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"?

More like "I want to renegotiate my contract - there's something fishy about it".

[mybrainhurts]

mattviatura said:

General Bilko said:

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"?

Carp joke.

That put him in his plaice...

[IroningMan]

You did that on porpoise.

[Eric Mc]

Tou're SKATing on thin ice there.

[Frankeh]

If a human conciousness was put into a whale/dolphin body I'd expect the same kinds of behaviour that I see now from normal dolphins/whales.

There's only so much intelligence you can demonstrate when you don't have a voice box and thumbs.

Is say this is a good thing! Lets hope it stops Japan slaughtering them.

[Halb]

carmonk said:

Silly phraseology aside it seems reasonable.

I believe so.
As people move away from the Christian idea that other animals are there just for our use, the knowledge we learn from studying the other animals reveals very complex societies and in some cases very 'human' qualities.
Cetaceans as with some other creatures have been discovered to have cultures, which would have been pooh-poohed at only relatively recently.

[anonymous-user]

I've halibut enough of these fish puns.

[budgie smuggler]

sounds like a right load of pollocks to me

[TheHeretic]

Meh... If they were so intelligent, why do they keep getting trapped in the tuna nets?

[Allaloneatron]

TheHeretic said:

Meh... If they were so intelligent, why do they keep getting trapped in the tuna nets?

[mondeoman]

Allaloneatron said:

TheHeretic said:

Meh... If they were so intelligent, why do they keep getting trapped in the tuna nets?

She did that on porpoise, bet she's from whales

[Hooli]

TheHeretic said:

Meh... If they were so intelligent, why do they keep getting trapped in the tuna nets?

Because the nets are designed to catch big things swimming about in the water?

[ewenm]

Apache said:

"She said: "We went from seeing the dolphin/whale brain as being a giant amorphous blob that doesn't carry a lot of intelligence and complexity to not only being an enormous brain but an enormous brain with an enormous amount of complexity, and a complexity that rivals our own. It's different in the way it's put together but in terms of the level of complexity it's very similar to the human brain.""

so.......complex then

The first part of her quote seems to describe the brains of much of humanity.