Tuesday 21 April 2015

Dolphin Intelligence: It's Time For A Conversation

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Hector and Han are bottlenose dolphins at the Roatán Institute for Marine Sciences. When head trainer Teri Turner Bolton gives the two dolphins a command, they do it in unison.

But is one dolphin mimicking the other so quickly and precisely that the apparent coordination is only an illusion? Or it's not an illusion at all: When they whistle back and forth they're literally discussing a plan.

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