Are Dolphins Intelligent?
bottle-nose dolphins are indeed self-aware. They saw their piscine faces in that silvered glass, and knew that they think, therefore they Am. Dolphins come in many different varieties, as do human races. They interact with one another in social ways, pass information on through a form of language, and can interact and comply with direction from other species(humans) as well. Therefore, Dolphins can be said to be an intelligent species, self-aware and deserving of the same rights we allow ourselves. The basic problem in studying non-human intelligence is to come up with a universal definition of intelligence. One such definition is that intelligence is the ability to use language and create tools to manipulate the environment. This may seem logical, and indeed mankind seems to be the perfect example of this, however the very perfectness with which our species fits this title is an argument that its humanocentric nature is too limiting. By making the requirements for intelligence to stri
