Dolphins have been doing roughly the same thing for millennia.
Dolphins are incredibly smart creatures. Not only do they have the mental capacity to bond with humans and learn the complex routines taught at places like SeaWorld, but they're also smart enough to coordinate underwater attacks, and even plot out horrific acts like aquatic sexual assault. On a less terrible note, they also "name" one another, according to recent findings by researchers at Scotland's University of St. Andrews....
by Russell Tenofsky
March 5, 2013
New findings (click here) published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggest that bottlenose dolphins use “signature whistles” to identify themselves and are able to learn and recognize the “names” of other dolphins. This cognitive ability, known as “referential communication with learned signals,” was always thought to be unique to humans....
We are now a nation without a conscience. We had a close call this past week again in the Gulf of Mexico. Still? We are looking the other for the sake of oil way still?
Oil is more important than life. Life is nothing without oil. Oil is more important than fisheries and the people taking care of them and those providing this nation seafood for generations of families. Oil drilling is vastly more important than quality of life? You have got to be joking.
February 24, 2011
By Nina Mandell
Trouble may not be over (click here) for the Gulf Coast after dead baby dolphins were discovered in Mississippi and Alabama, bringing the number of dead dolphins to a total of 28 this year, according to reports.
The four baby dolphins make a total of 18 dead baby dolphins this year – 10 times the annual average, AOL Travel reported
"We're definitely keeping a close eye on this situation,” Blair Mase, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine-mammal stranding coordinator told the Sun-Herald....
