The story of Peter the dolphin is incredibly tragic and sad. We undervalue the intelligence of other species. Especially cetaceans. I don't think we have any clue how smart they are. For example.. Sperm whales adapted, globally, to whaling in a pretty short period of time. Even before whaling had mostly ended, the hunting yields for sperm whales had dropped dramatically. The whales appeared to communicate across pods and family groups that humans were deadly. They'd warn distant pods of approaching ships. They also seemed to develop strategies and share them, again, across family groups and pods. When a ship approached, they'd deliberately swim upwind so the ships couldn't follow. That implies that Sperm whales had figured out the physics involved in sailing. The males would sometimes attack a whaling ship in desperate times, allowing the family to escape upwind. It shows that cetaceans are extraordinarily smart. Smart in a way that's impossible for us to relate to.
I just had a thiught when brain size was mentioned, and im not sure how to say this right, but has the brain size of an animal ever been scaled and compared to human brains in regards to intelligence. Like how big of a brain is in the head of a small animal compared to a big animal. Im struggling to say this how i want to, but just because a brain is smaller than ours doesnt mean it is less intelligent, and i think to talk aboout brain size we should also consider the scale. For example if a birds head is 2 inches in diamete and the brain is 1.9 inches but the human head is 30 inches vut the brain is 15, then essentially and potentially our brains would be smaller than said bird. I made up numbers btw, but for another example does the dolpins brain make up more space in its head than a human brain in its head? And if so does the size of the brain affect intelligence?
The story of Peter the dolphin is incredibly tragic and sad. We undervalue the intelligence of other species. Especially cetaceans. I don't think we have any clue how smart they are. For example.. Sperm whales adapted, globally, to whaling in a pretty short period of time. Even before whaling had mostly ended, the hunting yields for sperm whales had dropped dramatically. The whales appeared to communicate across pods and family groups that humans were deadly. They'd warn distant pods of approaching ships. They also seemed to develop strategies and share them, again, across family groups and pods. When a ship approached, they'd deliberately swim upwind so the ships couldn't follow. That implies that Sperm whales had figured out the physics involved in sailing. The males would sometimes attack a whaling ship in desperate times, allowing the family to escape upwind. It shows that cetaceans are extraordinarily smart. Smart in a way that's impossible for us to relate to.
I just had a thiught when brain size was mentioned, and im not sure how to say this right, but has the brain size of an animal ever been scaled and compared to human brains in regards to intelligence. Like how big of a brain is in the head of a small animal compared to a big animal. Im struggling to say this how i want to, but just because a brain is smaller than ours doesnt mean it is less intelligent, and i think to talk aboout brain size we should also consider the scale. For example if a birds head is 2 inches in diamete and the brain is 1.9 inches but the human head is 30 inches vut the brain is 15, then essentially and potentially our brains would be smaller than said bird. I made up numbers btw, but for another example does the dolpins brain make up more space in its head than a human brain in its head? And if so does the size of the brain affect intelligence?
Soooo depressing
I am the dolphin being held hostage… #GROKODUS #GROK #HELP
Human males also have been pussified