If we can figure out how to communicate with dolphins, us as humans will recognize dolphins as their own people and they will get their own infrastructure and their own rights.
A dolphin accidentally bit my hand when I was five years old, he's submerged himself it didn't come back for a while because he felt stupid. I love that dolphin for having more apologetic concern than most human beings
@@Bebolife12345 1. expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure. "she was very apologetic about the whole incident" in this case the failure could be the dolphin mistaking the hand for food or something
Sharky Playz Unfortunately thumbs are still destroying the planet. They , the marine mammals have been on this earth for hundreds of millions of years in paradise and us with our thumbs have buggered it in no time atall. Bloody thumbs nothing but trouble.
Yes. Also note that it was when we discovered fire and cooking that our brains developed further- so dolphins may actually have more potential than humans.
Its p.o.v. Certain shots are still not evolved enough for humans to take vividly. This include ariel photos as you have to zoom far and prevent blurring. Edit: tale>take
I wonder how a dolphin would react to video that went from being underwater to flying through the air over the ground so they can see what is beyond the coast line
You could even end up flying into space to really blow their minds (although I realise that there doesn't yet exist a device that can travel from a position underwater to a position above the atmosphere).
A friend and I were on a small island in the intercoastal waterway in Clearwater, Florida when I saw a mama and baby dolphin swim by. And they came back and forth a few times. Then I spotted about 10 grown dolphins heading straight toward them, sending a bait ball right at them. Then baby was able to make her own catch. That was amazing to watch the whole family teach the baby how to catch fish!! That magical moment was such a beautiful gift.
I live along the west coast of Florida. I frequently see dolphins, I think they are bottle nose but I'm not certain of the species. I see them more frequently in the winter. They like to come into the harbor where the water is more shallow and warm. There is a small pod that I frequently see visit the same spot. Along the sea wall there is a spot where the wall forms an ell. The water is perhaps about 6-10 feet deep and is near where pleasure craft are moored. It seems they have figured out how to trap fish in that ell in the sea wall. A couple of winters ago I watched a mother teach it's two calves (at least I assumed they were both hers or perhaps she was simply the designated teacher of the young i that pod) how to trap the fish along the sea wall. It was fun to watch. This past winter I saw the now much bigger two young dolphins on several occasions visit this spot and they continue to trap fish in that spot. They each and sometimes other dolphins with them but there is almost always those same two (they have distinctive markings on their dorsal fins that make it easy to recognize them) who do this and they swim out to where the docks are then turn around and corral fish against the sea wall then there is a sort of feeding frenzy. They repeat this perhaps half a dozen to a dozen times taking turns in various positions along the sea wall and between the docks getting the fish from different angles. There is always at least one that does most of the driving of the fish into position and the other who snatches them as they run into the wall then turn around and find they are trapped. Often the fish will jump out of the water and there is a dolphin waiting for it with mouth open. But back to the first winter I saw these two young dolphins. I was sitting on the edge of the sea wall watching them. My feet were perhaps about two feet from the surface of the water. One of the dolphins was playing with a two liter bottle that someone probably dumped over board from their boat. The two were tossing the bottle back and forth in a game of catch. After a while they seemed to get kind of brave. The mother was perhaps fifty feet from the sea wall swimming back and forth. the two little ones were getting closer and closer to the sea wall until one was less than five feet from me. All of a sudden I got recruited into the game of catch. One of the dolphins tossed the bottle up out of the water towards me and he had pretty good aim because I all had to do was reach out to catch the bottle. I looked at them then tossed the bottle to the other young dolphin who caught the bottle then tossed it to his sibling who then tossed it back to me. We did this about three or four times and then I realized it was probably not a good idea to let them have trash to play with so I kept the bottle the next time it was tossed to me. I am fairly certain this little game of theirs was a learned behavior. Perhaps someone tossed the bottle to them to see what they would do with it. Anyways they both got kind of vocal when they realized I wasn't returning their toy. That is when the mother swam over and guided them back out of the marina and back out into the main area of the harbor. I have seen them many times after that but I think they are angry with me because they have never come that close to me again though obviously they see me and recognize me. they always stick their head out and look at me for a moment then swim back to what they were doing ignoring me the rest o the time.. It's almost as though they are saying "Let's see who that is." then the see me and say "Oh it's HIM!" and then swim away. On another occasion at a different location I was fishing standing in about three feet of water when a very young dolphin, probably very curious swam right up to me. I could see the pod of about half a dozen dolphins perhaps about fifty feet away where the water was about four feet deep. They were probably doing the same thing I was doing. So this little dolphin was so tiny I could have easily picked it up and held it in my arms and I'm not sure it wouldn't have let me if I tried. It got within maybe three or four feet of me and watched intently as I baited my hook and then cast out the line. It went over to where the bait was and kind of circled for a while then swam back to me and watched some more and then I caught a fish and reeled it in. It was too small for me to keep legally so I tossed it back in the water. Of course I showed it to the baby dolphin and then tossed in to where he could easily get it which he did. It's not legal to actually feed a dolphin but it's also not legal to keep an undersized fish. I had to toss it back. So I tossed it more or less away from the dolphin but being the smart creatures they are this one swam right over and easily caught the fish which was most likely disoriented and stunned from having just been caught on a hook. I caught two more undersized fish and tossed both of them back and this youngster snatched both of them as well. But then I caught my dinner, put it into my bucket, bid the little dolphin goodbye and turned around and left. I looked back once to see him return to the pod. I have to guess that he must have interacted with other humans already as not one member of the pod seemed that upset that he swam over to a human. Not one made a move to retrieve him though they did seem to be rather occupied most likely fishing themselves and maybe they simply didn't notice the youngster wandering off. I have noticed dolphins hanging around the fishing pier hoping for a hand out. They seem to be very aware of the baited hooks being cast out as I have never seen one get hooked. They stay just out of reach of where the lines are cast. Sometimes they approach up close to the pier which is about three feet out of the water but only approach the part of the pier where the fishermen don't cast from. I think they have the whole thing figured out and know exactly what the fishermen are doing and know exactly where to lay in wait for fish who don't understand that those little fish they are chasing are attached to fishing lines. I have seen many dolphins chase fish and catch them around the fishing pier but never do any get close to where the fishermen cast out their lines. I have seen many of them "spy hop" and watch the fishermen and other people at the pier. One eyeballed me for five strait minutes while I eyeballed him back. Ever have a staring contest with a dolphin? They will win every time. It is my observation that dolphins are opportunistic feeders. Like human, each group has figured out how to obtain food in their area and each group has come up with their own strategies and techniques and they teach those to their young. I have personally witnessed half a dozen different feeding behaviors in just a three mile radius along the shore. There must be hundreds or perhaps even thousands of different feeding behaviors among all the different species of dolphins around the world.
nunya biznez All I wanna say is that I WISH I was so blessed as to live where you live. So close to those fascinating creatures. I absolutely love dolphins and I genuinely feel embarrassed and ashamed everytime I hear how well, compassionate and friendly dolphins interact with humans, almost as if that’s their impression of humans, without knowing how disgusting of a race we could be as evident in our history
I think the utmost important thing here to note is the fact that Dolphin captivity is NOT ok. Seaworld and parks alike are not places these amazing animals should be. Their intelligence is off the charts and they live their lives not all that dissimilar to ours. This goes for animals in general, but the dolphin species does an amazing job to make it obvious where they belong.
@Daniel You have got to be kidding me. This is more about "sentimentality", it's about a basic principle and a truth. It's already known to science that dolphins are self-aware, and there are countless examples in the wild and in captivity that proves their sophistication and intelligence. by saying that we shouldn't sacrifice entertainment by releasing what is a self-aware and intelligent creature is no different from suggesting that we should have captive slaves for entertainment. Regardless of how nice the cage is, it is still a cage. It's a disgusting mentality and shows a complete lack of consideration towards the perspective of the dolphin, especially with the knowledge that Dolphins are self aware and extremely close to the intelligence of humans. What would it take to get you to realize how wrong it is to have a self aware creature demonstrated to be about as intelligent as humans to keep them in a cage for the entertainment of another intelligent species? Is it only okay because they have different bodies from us and aren't land based creatures? Well that's utter bull, because that would be the most lame ass cop out excuse for the gilded imprisonment of intelligent species for the entertainment of other intelligent species.
I agree though sometimes the only two choices are keep them in captivity or release them and watch them die. Some dolphins are either sick or injured and cannot be rehabilitated sufficiently to make it safe for them to return to the wild. In such cases to me the only ethical thing to do is care for them and make them as comfortable as possible. I do only wish they had bigger enclosures. Every enclosure that I have ever seen is less than 1% of the size it should be. Yes, very sick dolphins must be kept in smaller enclosures for rehabilitation purposes but at some point they need a bigger enclosure. Sea World is an example of a place that exists more for profit and entertainment than for the benefit of the cetaceans they keep. It is not primarily a rehab facility though some rehab and research is done there. I live near a real rehab facility that keeps a small number of permanently disabled dolphins and then it has a rehab program where it released rehabilitated dolphins that hey cared for. I have observed many dolphins in the wild and have even interacted with them on a limited basis. I have observed dolphins and other cetaceans at sea world and other exhibits and aquariums. It is obvious to any one who has that dolphins are much happier out in the wild. Sea World and the like are prisons. The cetaceans there are inmates. How do I know? Because I used to volunteer teaching reading to inmates and have had the opportunity to observe their behavior as well. The cetaceans kept in captivity exhibit typical inmate behavior.
I EAT ASS Wow, now YOUR statement was a true example of "irony". Juanito Perez making a grammatical error of the word (then/than) has absolutely no irony in it. However, your comment of "than....... Oh the irony", is actually a perfect example of irony because you are trying to correct his grammar, and in doing so, YOU make a grammatical error by misusing the word irony. His comment is not ironic because he is stating that Dolphin's brains are bigger than humans (he's implying dolphins are smarter). Yet YOU are acting like he's claiming that he is the intelligent one, which Juanito did not imply. And even if he did, it STILL would not make his comment ironic. Go google some examples of "irony", and you'll understand how your comment was ironic, and not his.
If reincarnation is real, part of me wants to believe that we are reincarnated as dolphins and that's why they have such a unique relationship with us. They can't speak the same language they did in their former life, so they do their best with their current abilities. They play like we do. Socialize like we do. Form families like we do. They seem just as interested to communicate with us as we are with them. It's seriously mind blowing stuff. To me they are more magical than the sheer idea of creatures like mermaids possibly existing. I am really so obsessed with them xD
according to greek mythology, dolphins are transformed human pirates. Since dolphins are the animal closest to humans in physiology (much closer than apes), at the very least there is a shared ancestor.
The illusion of human separateness makes us surprised that anything else of the universe can be intelligent. Everything in the universe is as intelligent as the next thing just in different ways. I think it's our arrogance that makes us more intrigued by animals with a similar intelligence of our own.
Imagine this, we have two eyes that observe the same type of light, and your brain decodes that information, and turns it into a picture. Dolphins also have 2 eyes that do this exact thing, however, dolphins also have sonar. So they convert light to visual information, and they convert sound to visual information. This means that their visual cortex is by far more powerful than ours, because they turn both light and sound, from 3 receptive points, into 1 image in their mind. it's really amazing!
I don’t really follow. Can’t you just judge how far away something is based on the sound? Once the dolphins are it of water, sonar doesn’t help much at all. You don’t see many animals on land with sonar because it has no real purpose. Sonar helps when you can get attacked from all directions, but in land, you essentially just have the X axis to watch out for. Dolphins won’t reach the level of humans until they become smarter still, and they still need to make written language, which is impossible.
No gripes with the comment, just putting this out there. For the sake of discussion if nothing else. Because I don't know if "visual information" is the right word to use for sonar, exactly. "Visual cortex" is also a name for a brain part to makes humans perceive the world, named because we heavily rely on light to perceive. Blind people who have adapted their hearing using something similar to echolocation utilizes the visual cortex, but that's kinda because they don't have anything else. They essentially create pictures in their head matching the sound's vibrations, using the one perceiving brain part they do have, feeding it stimuli in new ways. But for, say, bats, they process it in a different way. The brain part perceiving the world around them is not built like the visual cortex, but does have different layers that processes different kinds of stimuli. I imagine it's similar in dolphins. Sound can create an accurate "picture" for them similar to how light does, but it's not really a *picture* as that's entirely sight-based. Point being: It's hard to fathom "visualization" without a picture in mind. Heck, there doesn't even exist a good word for "visualization" that doesn't have "vision" in it. But isn't that just because that's how our brain is built to understand it? Either way, it must be remarkable to perceive the world that way indeed.
I wonder if they are able to inquire things. Do they know we are trying to learn from them? If they could ask us questions about what we are and why we are doing these tests, that would be absolutely stunning...
I have had many occasions to observe dolphin behavior. They are very curious. On many occasions I have observed them and found I was being observed right back.
Crisscross you realize that if we didn't spend so much on war we wouldn't have invented radar/sonar, and would have no idea how dolphins communicate, right? And that computers are a result of war spending, so we would have no way to make these devices without war. In fact most dolphin communication data was funded by the US navy, because they want to ask where the submarines are.
maybe in the future we could have waterproof smartphones with an installed animal chat to talk to the animals under water. so maybe in one day we could hear a dolphin saying "hello, you look weird for a fish. let's play" or if it's in a bad mood - "fuck off dude".
Imagine what they could do if they weren't limited to the ocean or had fingers that can grasp like us! Fascinating to know we aren't the only sentient life on our own planet.
Ya, I despise the whole TedTalk culture. 9 minutes of clever supposition, absent of any good information, 45 seconds of upper-middle class humor, 10 seconds of preparation, leading up to a 5 second statement that is of acual interest, the end; 10 minutes of your leasure life waisted.
John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Diane meant to say that their brains are second in size to humans when body size is taken into account. Their brains are are larger than human brains. I'm with Lilly on the subject of brain/body ratio. He theorized that large brains need large bodies to protect the brain from brain damage. Also, the dolphin brain is 40 percent larger than humans in the areas that separate humans from apes.
John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Most of those intelligence tests were simple simon tests that basically insult the dolphins intelligence. We will never know how smart they are until we can have two way communication with them. The most intelligent thing I have seen from a dolphin is a wild dolphin that had a fishnet stuck on him go to a diver for help. That is active thinking that also requires the intuition to know the diver is equally intelligent. It takes intelligence to recognize intelligence.
This video was both educational and fascinating. The sea is full of magic, and the sea creatures is adorable. I regret not studying to be a marine biologist. :(((((
These are amazing photographs. Dolphins are magnificent creatures. Philosopher Thomas White did ask if dolphins are "persons" and according to the criteria (among them, being alive, aware, intelligent, communicative, emotive) then it is a yes, they are. There's a lot more to know about them. These visuals help, very informative and beautiful. And so thank you from this landlubber lol.
Of course they're non-human persons. The ancient Greeks knew that! "Diviner than the dolphin, nothing is created," said the poet Oppian. We're just too stupid to recognize it. Dr. John C. Lilly, btw, was the first to propose a "Cetacean Bill of Rights," way back in the 1970s.
For that 2nd test, the best way to do it would be to only show it to one Dolphin first. Then that Dolphin would have to communicate the information to the other before they could co-operate.
I have logged more than 2 hours per day over a 2 year period swimming with Wild Spinner Dolphins. Spintaneous encounters where the Dolphins actually approached me with leaves on their fins in a very deliberate and socially inviting manner, inviting play and teaching me. I have many stories to share about what I saw in the water with them. Beyond anything that we may currently think possible for a human being to share with a wild animal. I believe I was blessed with those profound exoeriences because I never expected the dolphins to play my human games. I enter the Ocean on their terms, by their invitation. I lay very still sometimes in the water anf just feel love and srnd love. Often when I open my eyes the dolphins come like a platoon through the water and begin deliberate play. I have experienced 120 hours of spontaneous interactions at sea in South-Africa when I was a Marine Asset Manager, every encounter was unique and nithing I could have planned or imagined.
When I go in the pool in public beach, favourite activity is floating above the water. If I we're to do something like this with dolphins, would they carry me?
I'd like to find a dolphin with an interest in philosophy or the history of their habitat. If we're going to talk about intelligence, we've gotta find individual dolphins with academic interests. I for one think they're fully capable of conceptualizing those sorts of things
Somewhere, a dolphin is thinking "what did that lady just say to me?" You have to be careful when learning new languages. Once I wanted to tell a Hispanic landscape crew to please NOT share their lunch with my dogs. My syntax must have been flawed, given the horrified looks I got. Turned out, I had asked them not to EAT my dogs. My bad!
Same thing with me. I screwed up Italian while visiting a relative of mine, (his name was Giorno Giovanna) and I asked for squid ink spaghetti, which my grandfather reccomended, and I somehow got raw squid instead.
It wonder if this will become easier when they, with their smart minds, realize that our strange behavior and tools when we're around them, is because we want to understand them.
when someone manages to translate "so long, and thanks for all the fish", ill be able to die happy. someday.... also, that podium reminds me of jeopardy.
John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Just like Conor said all mammals have the same genetic links from mammals that developed on Pangea before it split to form the continents we know today. If this were not the case, I think Australia would probably have other types of mammals than marsupials.
Dolphins are definitely smarter than humans: - they never fell for the materialistic, egoistic side of life on this planet, - they don't make wars, - they don't discriminate, - they are gentle, - they practice solidarity and empathy, - they bring up their children, - they care for their elders, - they don't pollute their environment, and (!) - they don't brag about being smart.
Exactly. The ability to accumulate and hoard 'stuff' does not make us as smart as we think it does. And any species whose language we don't understand (and sometimes even members of our own species) we write off as stupid
Raphael it is possible that they have wars, they have good and bad sides like we do. It is hard to tell without further research. Fact is that they can have bad moods as well.
+LightningToothless i can not believe that a scientist would say the orca is more intelligent then a bottle nosed dolphin as it is very well known in the scientific community that the bottle nosed dolphin is either the 2nd or 3rd most intelligent animal in the world before or after chimps...
recent studies in the last 4 suggest bottle nosed doliphans may actually be smarter then chimpanzees but i understand yea. I was including humans when i said animals
***** Look at a photograph as a "one-frame" video. A really good one-frame video can be just as good as the longer running kind, sometimes more pleasing, graphically. Be assured, the one-frame videos in this video are among the best you will ever see.
I have to disagree. He's a professional photographer at NG. Its best that he focuses on what he's good at. In the right context a picture can be more interesting than a video, especially if the person who took the photo is explaining the backstory. If he were to shoot a video it may have taken attention away from his career as a photographer. Photography and Video are very different in the way that they tell stories. Moving pictures develop over time but a photograph is cemented in frame.
Videos can be distracting to a presentation. When we only hear audio together with still images we tend to focus more on listening to the presenter and use our imagination more.
A pod of dolphins once approached the Navy ship I was serving on we were at full speed and they only came up to the side ppl were on and they hung out for about a minute then simultaneously took off much faster than we could go on our big bad ship. I swear they were laughing at us showing is who was truly free
If you look at their released documents, the CIA knows almost nothing about them. On the other hand, Michael Greenwood, a civilian scientist who worked with dolphins, said "If the U.S. Navy would release what it knows about dolphins, it would revolutionize society." The trick is finding which department has them.
I spend a lot of time on Guam when I'm tired of Manila. I've had dolphins come up to me several times when I was snorkeling the bomb holes. Beautiful animals.
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in a parallel universe, the dolphins are watching this video in their recommended list
Humans: even smarter than you thought
Maybe but u dont know yet if there are in parallel world
If we can figure out how to communicate with dolphins, us as humans will recognize dolphins as their own people and they will get their own infrastructure and their own rights.
@@Jake-te8et you sound crazy but i actually that in a lot of years that might be possible
@@elmer.egay2001 they vibin underwater on youtube
A dolphin accidentally bit my hand when I was five years old, he's submerged himself it didn't come back for a while because he felt stupid. I love that dolphin for having more apologetic concern than most human beings
That’s such a cute story. Sorry for your hand!
How do you know he was “apologetic” lol. I’m not denying what happened, but you’re attaching an irrational bias to the event.
Bebolife from what we know so far it is more irrational to believe that dolphins don’t feel apologetic when they make mistakes
@@Shepards-tone
Define apologetic.
@@Bebolife12345
1.
expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure.
"she was very apologetic about the whole incident" in this case the failure could be the dolphin mistaking the hand for food or something
That photograph of the dolphins, penguin, and bird all feeding on an anchovy ball is spectacular.
I hope that we will understand the dolphin speech before I die. THat's one my big dreams for human achievements.
Lugmillord We probably understand dolphins language in the year 2021 and we have computers that can actually talk to dolphins.
They gonna tell us how the world started
You really need to reevaluate your dreams. lmao
@Daisies and Lillies They can teach s the secrets of the universe because dolphins know about cosmology?
I think its illegal to decipher communication with dolphins
The only thing holding dolphins back from making tools and building cities is their anatomy; they don't have thumbs or fingers. If they did however...
Very good point! I've never thought of it from that perspective. You are so right.
Sharky Playz Unfortunately thumbs are still destroying the planet. They , the marine mammals have been on this earth for hundreds of millions of years in paradise and us with our thumbs have buggered it in no time atall. Bloody thumbs nothing but trouble.
I agree, Let's give them thumbs &fingers! I bet They'll show us humans how to do it right
But they do use tools. They use objects like sponges for example, and carry them in their mouth to use for various things
Yes. Also note that it was when we discovered fire and cooking that our brains developed further- so dolphins may actually have more potential than humans.
Dolphins are absolutely up to something. I don't know what is it is, but it's definitely something.
Something fishy
Jordan Monie xD 😂😂😂 something fishy indeed.
The way they are always smiling... Like they know something we don't
They gon team up with the octopus
one day we will understand them and build them robotic arm and they will dominate us
These pictures are amazing... Some of them almost seem like paintings.
hdr
Its p.o.v. Certain shots are still not evolved enough for humans to take vividly. This include ariel photos as you have to zoom far and prevent blurring.
Edit: tale>take
I wonder how a dolphin would react to video that went from being underwater to flying through the air over the ground so they can see what is beyond the coast line
Wow, this should totally be done
Genius
Not only that but also being put in a glass box and flown around for half hour or so we have the planes capable of this
You could even end up flying into space to really blow their minds (although
I realise that there doesn't yet exist a device that can travel from a position underwater to a position above the atmosphere).
They probably wouldn't recognize that it was a video of anything.
A friend and I were on a small island in the intercoastal waterway in Clearwater, Florida when I saw a mama and baby dolphin swim by. And they came back and forth a few times. Then I spotted about 10 grown dolphins heading straight toward them, sending a bait ball right at them. Then baby was able to make her own catch. That was amazing to watch the whole family teach the baby how to catch fish!! That magical moment was such a beautiful gift.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
James Anderson ha. I read hitchhiker s guide. funny to hear it again.
Not yet. We're not doomed yet.
Reasonably
Huell, are you happy?
Are you a dolphin?
Jotaro: Gosh i wish Dolphins Were real
I live along the west coast of Florida. I frequently see dolphins, I think they are bottle nose but I'm not certain of the species. I see them more frequently in the winter. They like to come into the harbor where the water is more shallow and warm. There is a small pod that I frequently see visit the same spot. Along the sea wall there is a spot where the wall forms an ell. The water is perhaps about 6-10 feet deep and is near where pleasure craft are moored. It seems they have figured out how to trap fish in that ell in the sea wall. A couple of winters ago I watched a mother teach it's two calves (at least I assumed they were both hers or perhaps she was simply the designated teacher of the young i that pod) how to trap the fish along the sea wall. It was fun to watch. This past winter I saw the now much bigger two young dolphins on several occasions visit this spot and they continue to trap fish in that spot. They each and sometimes other dolphins with them but there is almost always those same two (they have distinctive markings on their dorsal fins that make it easy to recognize them) who do this and they swim out to where the docks are then turn around and corral fish against the sea wall then there is a sort of feeding frenzy. They repeat this perhaps half a dozen to a dozen times taking turns in various positions along the sea wall and between the docks getting the fish from different angles. There is always at least one that does most of the driving of the fish into position and the other who snatches them as they run into the wall then turn around and find they are trapped. Often the fish will jump out of the water and there is a dolphin waiting for it with mouth open.
But back to the first winter I saw these two young dolphins. I was sitting on the edge of the sea wall watching them. My feet were perhaps about two feet from the surface of the water. One of the dolphins was playing with a two liter bottle that someone probably dumped over board from their boat. The two were tossing the bottle back and forth in a game of catch. After a while they seemed to get kind of brave. The mother was perhaps fifty feet from the sea wall swimming back and forth. the two little ones were getting closer and closer to the sea wall until one was less than five feet from me. All of a sudden I got recruited into the game of catch. One of the dolphins tossed the bottle up out of the water towards me and he had pretty good aim because I all had to do was reach out to catch the bottle. I looked at them then tossed the bottle to the other young dolphin who caught the bottle then tossed it to his sibling who then tossed it back to me. We did this about three or four times and then I realized it was probably not a good idea to let them have trash to play with so I kept the bottle the next time it was tossed to me. I am fairly certain this little game of theirs was a learned behavior. Perhaps someone tossed the bottle to them to see what they would do with it. Anyways they both got kind of vocal when they realized I wasn't returning their toy. That is when the mother swam over and guided them back out of the marina and back out into the main area of the harbor. I have seen them many times after that but I think they are angry with me because they have never come that close to me again though obviously they see me and recognize me. they always stick their head out and look at me for a moment then swim back to what they were doing ignoring me the rest o the time.. It's almost as though they are saying "Let's see who that is." then the see me and say "Oh it's HIM!" and then swim away.
On another occasion at a different location I was fishing standing in about three feet of water when a very young dolphin, probably very curious swam right up to me. I could see the pod of about half a dozen dolphins perhaps about fifty feet away where the water was about four feet deep. They were probably doing the same thing I was doing. So this little dolphin was so tiny I could have easily picked it up and held it in my arms and I'm not sure it wouldn't have let me if I tried. It got within maybe three or four feet of me and watched intently as I baited my hook and then cast out the line. It went over to where the bait was and kind of circled for a while then swam back to me and watched some more and then I caught a fish and reeled it in. It was too small for me to keep legally so I tossed it back in the water. Of course I showed it to the baby dolphin and then tossed in to where he could easily get it which he did. It's not legal to actually feed a dolphin but it's also not legal to keep an undersized fish. I had to toss it back. So I tossed it more or less away from the dolphin but being the smart creatures they are this one swam right over and easily caught the fish which was most likely disoriented and stunned from having just been caught on a hook. I caught two more undersized fish and tossed both of them back and this youngster snatched both of them as well. But then I caught my dinner, put it into my bucket, bid the little dolphin goodbye and turned around and left. I looked back once to see him return to the pod. I have to guess that he must have interacted with other humans already as not one member of the pod seemed that upset that he swam over to a human. Not one made a move to retrieve him though they did seem to be rather occupied most likely fishing themselves and maybe they simply didn't notice the youngster wandering off.
I have noticed dolphins hanging around the fishing pier hoping for a hand out. They seem to be very aware of the baited hooks being cast out as I have never seen one get hooked. They stay just out of reach of where the lines are cast. Sometimes they approach up close to the pier which is about three feet out of the water but only approach the part of the pier where the fishermen don't cast from. I think they have the whole thing figured out and know exactly what the fishermen are doing and know exactly where to lay in wait for fish who don't understand that those little fish they are chasing are attached to fishing lines. I have seen many dolphins chase fish and catch them around the fishing pier but never do any get close to where the fishermen cast out their lines. I have seen many of them "spy hop" and watch the fishermen and other people at the pier. One eyeballed me for five strait minutes while I eyeballed him back. Ever have a staring contest with a dolphin? They will win every time.
It is my observation that dolphins are opportunistic feeders. Like human, each group has figured out how to obtain food in their area and each group has come up with their own strategies and techniques and they teach those to their young. I have personally witnessed half a dozen different feeding behaviors in just a three mile radius along the shore. There must be hundreds or perhaps even thousands of different feeding behaviors among all the different species of dolphins around the world.
This is the longest comment I've ever seen that I'll read unto completion. Cheerio Mate.
nunya biznez All I wanna say is that I WISH I was so blessed as to live where you live. So close to those fascinating creatures. I absolutely love dolphins and I genuinely feel embarrassed and ashamed everytime I hear how well, compassionate and friendly dolphins interact with humans, almost as if that’s their impression of humans, without knowing how disgusting of a race we could be as evident in our history
Misanthropy is played out bro
Thank you for sharing your experiences. They are truly one of the most intelligent beings. You are so blessed to be around them on a daily basis.
What amazing experiences
I think the utmost important thing here to note is the fact that Dolphin captivity is NOT ok. Seaworld and parks alike are not places these amazing animals should be. Their intelligence is off the charts and they live their lives not all that dissimilar to ours. This goes for animals in general, but the dolphin species does an amazing job to make it obvious where they belong.
@Daniel You have got to be kidding me. This is more about "sentimentality", it's about a basic principle and a truth. It's already known to science that dolphins are self-aware, and there are countless examples in the wild and in captivity that proves their sophistication and intelligence.
by saying that we shouldn't sacrifice entertainment by releasing what is a self-aware and intelligent creature is no different from suggesting that we should have captive slaves for entertainment. Regardless of how nice the cage is, it is still a cage. It's a disgusting mentality and shows a complete lack of consideration towards the perspective of the dolphin, especially with the knowledge that Dolphins are self aware and extremely close to the intelligence of humans. What would it take to get you to realize how wrong it is to have a self aware creature demonstrated to be about as intelligent as humans to keep them in a cage for the entertainment of another intelligent species? Is it only okay because they have different bodies from us and aren't land based creatures? Well that's utter bull, because that would be the most lame ass cop out excuse for the gilded imprisonment of intelligent species for the entertainment of other intelligent species.
I agree though sometimes the only two choices are keep them in captivity or release them and watch them die. Some dolphins are either sick or injured and cannot be rehabilitated sufficiently to make it safe for them to return to the wild. In such cases to me the only ethical thing to do is care for them and make them as comfortable as possible. I do only wish they had bigger enclosures. Every enclosure that I have ever seen is less than 1% of the size it should be. Yes, very sick dolphins must be kept in smaller enclosures for rehabilitation purposes but at some point they need a bigger enclosure. Sea World is an example of a place that exists more for profit and entertainment than for the benefit of the cetaceans they keep. It is not primarily a rehab facility though some rehab and research is done there. I live near a real rehab facility that keeps a small number of permanently disabled dolphins and then it has a rehab program where it released rehabilitated dolphins that hey cared for. I have observed many dolphins in the wild and have even interacted with them on a limited basis. I have observed dolphins and other cetaceans at sea world and other exhibits and aquariums. It is obvious to any one who has that dolphins are much happier out in the wild. Sea World and the like are prisons. The cetaceans there are inmates. How do I know? Because I used to volunteer teaching reading to inmates and have had the opportunity to observe their behavior as well. The cetaceans kept in captivity exhibit typical inmate behavior.
you are absolutely right!
True. Non violent humans in captivity is not ok either. ;)
Oh god yea. Completely agree. If you want to see dolphins, go into their natural habitat. They're like the opposite of elusive.
That photo of the Dusky Dolphins with the bird and penguin 🐧 was an absolutely incredible photo
I love dolphins I feel like they are so magical.
*than........ Oh the irony.
I EAT ASS Wow, now YOUR statement was a true example of "irony". Juanito Perez making a grammatical error of the word (then/than) has absolutely no irony in it. However, your comment of "than....... Oh the irony", is actually a perfect example of irony because you are trying to correct his grammar, and in doing so, YOU make a grammatical error by misusing the word irony. His comment is not ironic because he is stating that Dolphin's brains are bigger than humans (he's implying dolphins are smarter). Yet YOU are acting like he's claiming that he is the intelligent one, which Juanito did not imply. And even if he did, it STILL would not make his comment ironic. Go google some examples of "irony", and you'll understand how your comment was ironic, and not his.
Do you spend all your time sitting on your ass on the computer? Like seriously don't you have anything better to do?
I EAT ASS lol teh ange.
*language
But can they tell us why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
give him a break
😂
No but I can. It's called sugar.
The taste u can see
DarthT15 But no one knows.
Surprised no one made a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke yet.
lemmingrad
I made a joke, but kept it to myself. I'm sure others did the same.
Maria L he
So long and thanks for all the fish
@@Siliven I was literally just thinking "so long and thanks for all the fish...." wasn't going to type it, but.....
This comment should have exactly 42 likes ;)
So a lady who has a universal dolphin translator. Sweet!
If reincarnation is real, part of me wants to believe that we are reincarnated as dolphins and that's why they have such a unique relationship with us. They can't speak the same language they did in their former life, so they do their best with their current abilities. They play like we do. Socialize like we do. Form families like we do. They seem just as interested to communicate with us as we are with them. It's seriously mind blowing stuff. To me they are more magical than the sheer idea of creatures like mermaids possibly existing. I am really so obsessed with them xD
But there's loads more species who do just the same as what you listed?? What makes dolphins stand out?
u one of them...
[드림캐쳐][Dreamcatcher] ....Do you like fish sticks
Bad dolphins get re-incarnated as humans.
according to greek mythology, dolphins are transformed human pirates.
Since dolphins are the animal closest to humans in physiology (much closer than apes), at the very least there is a shared ancestor.
The illusion of human separateness makes us surprised that anything else of the universe can be intelligent. Everything in the universe is as intelligent as the next thing just in different ways. I think it's our arrogance that makes us more intrigued by animals with a similar intelligence of our own.
Keir Campbell arrogant
Yoghi Adhi Sri Bawono I don't think that's arrogant, it's truth
Learn basic psychology about intelligence and you will see. ;)
Michael Machupa EXACTLY
Keir Campbell you're quite right actually
Imagine this, we have two eyes that observe the same type of light, and your brain decodes that information, and turns it into a picture.
Dolphins also have 2 eyes that do this exact thing, however, dolphins also have sonar. So they convert light to visual information, and they convert sound to visual information. This means that their visual cortex is by far more powerful than ours, because they turn both light and sound, from 3 receptive points, into 1 image in their mind. it's really amazing!
But dolphins have eyes on the sides😁
I don’t really follow. Can’t you just judge how far away something is based on the sound? Once the dolphins are it of water, sonar doesn’t help much at all.
You don’t see many animals on land with sonar because it has no real purpose. Sonar helps when you can get attacked from all directions, but in land, you essentially just have the X axis to watch out for.
Dolphins won’t reach the level of humans until they become smarter still, and they still need to make written language, which is impossible.
@@mike-0451
You missed the point of my comment completely.
@@shipwreck9146 No I understood exactly what you said. Why can't I share my opinion as well?
No gripes with the comment, just putting this out there. For the sake of discussion if nothing else.
Because I don't know if "visual information" is the right word to use for sonar, exactly. "Visual cortex" is also a name for a brain part to makes humans perceive the world, named because we heavily rely on light to perceive.
Blind people who have adapted their hearing using something similar to echolocation utilizes the visual cortex, but that's kinda because they don't have anything else. They essentially create pictures in their head matching the sound's vibrations, using the one perceiving brain part they do have, feeding it stimuli in new ways.
But for, say, bats, they process it in a different way. The brain part perceiving the world around them is not built like the visual cortex, but does have different layers that processes different kinds of stimuli. I imagine it's similar in dolphins. Sound can create an accurate "picture" for them similar to how light does, but it's not really a *picture* as that's entirely sight-based.
Point being: It's hard to fathom "visualization" without a picture in mind. Heck, there doesn't even exist a good word for "visualization" that doesn't have "vision" in it. But isn't that just because that's how our brain is built to understand it?
Either way, it must be remarkable to perceive the world that way indeed.
Also they can translate emotions verbally with this echo location. It is absolutely mind blowing when you think about it.
I wonder if they are able to inquire things. Do they know we are trying to learn from them? If they could ask us questions about what we are and why we are doing these tests, that would be absolutely stunning...
+Byron Henry if they knew how evil humans are they would get d fk away from us
+Joel B dolphins aren't perfect either, they've been known to rape.
+Byron Henry Animals understand our language. They know what we are feeling as well. We truly underestimate any animal on this planet.
+TheGoodChap dolphins are very very very amazing
I have had many occasions to observe dolphin behavior. They are very curious. On many occasions I have observed them and found I was being observed right back.
that CHAT language gizmo is incredible. how clever. to think one day there could be a 2 way complex conversation.
We would already be communicating fully with gorillas and dolphins if we didn't waste so much money on war and preventable obesity.
Crisscross you realize that if we didn't spend so much on war we wouldn't have invented radar/sonar, and would have no idea how dolphins communicate, right? And that computers are a result of war spending, so we would have no way to make these devices without war. In fact most dolphin communication data was funded by the US navy, because they want to ask where the submarines are.
maybe in the future we could have waterproof smartphones with an installed animal chat to talk to the animals under water. so maybe in one day we could hear a dolphin saying "hello, you look weird for a fish. let's play" or if it's in a bad mood - "fuck off dude".
technology that comes from military spending- Internet, Modern Jet aircraft, Radar, Sonar, Space Travel, Computers all came out of defense spending
Ivan Lk wow. cool idea for an app
I see that you read one of my thesis
I read all of them
may i have an autograph
Ok Jotaro
I found my Jojo
This is confusing
I have read all of them, as I wrote them.
Wait a second-
Yare Yare Daze, who are you?
Imagine what they could do if they weren't limited to the ocean or had fingers that can grasp like us! Fascinating to know we aren't the only sentient life on our own planet.
Their teeth can actually act as hands. The conical shape of them allows dolphins to grasp objects, much like humans can.
Sure, if they were exactly like us they would be better........................
Great presentation! Brian Skerry's pictures are mesmerizing
I see these guys up close a few times a week where I live and it never gets old, I absolutely love them😍
Dolphins are such amazing animals, this is why they are my favourite.
I've fallen down the Dolphin Hole.
This is a prime example of when Ted Talks crams a big topic into far too little space of time.
I don't think this NAT GEO live presentation is associated with TED talk though. But i get ur comment
@C R wait what
Ya, I despise the whole TedTalk culture. 9 minutes of clever supposition, absent of any good information, 45 seconds of upper-middle class humor, 10 seconds of preparation, leading up to a 5 second statement that is of acual interest, the end; 10 minutes of your leasure life waisted.
that translator is mind blowing
I bet even dolphins are smarter than most of the kids that play fortnite xD
Dolphins are great, I love them.
Yes we do love them
wait-
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Diane meant to say that their brains are second in size to humans when body size is taken into account. Their brains are are larger than human brains. I'm with Lilly on the subject of brain/body ratio. He theorized that large brains need large bodies to protect the brain from brain damage. Also, the dolphin brain is 40 percent larger than humans in the areas that separate humans from apes.
Absolutely STUNNING pictures... they gave me a lot of aesthetic pleasure.... (and I am a photographer, now retired..... "effyleven" geddit?)
+effyleven Crazy how clear of a shot he got with the 500mm huh?
Jake Methner I agree. Real skill combined with just sufficient luck.
@@effyleven and photoshop :P
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
4:39 lol I bet they have a concept of the super hero
*BAT-DOLPHIN*
Most of those intelligence tests were simple simon tests that basically insult the dolphins intelligence. We will never know how smart they are until we can have two way communication with them. The most intelligent thing I have seen from a dolphin is a wild dolphin that had a fishnet stuck on him go to a diver for help. That is active thinking that also requires the intuition to know the diver is equally intelligent. It takes intelligence to recognize intelligence.
Why not make a sports game underwater, lets say quidditch ish with rings. Give the winner team rewards and see if the develop new strategies.
IHasMonkeyable do you play quidditch ? I used too
@@elijahdeballack2323 sometimes I forget that quidditch is a real sport
I for one welcome our Dolphin overlords
This video was both educational and fascinating. The sea is full of magic, and the sea creatures is adorable. I regret not studying to be a marine biologist. :(((((
What amazing video, dolphin can read? What else it can't do? Congradulation for this video freind
It's never too late to start.
You made jotaro happy
I am very pleased.
These are amazing photographs. Dolphins are magnificent creatures. Philosopher Thomas White did ask if dolphins are "persons" and according to the criteria (among them, being alive, aware, intelligent, communicative, emotive) then it is a yes, they are.
There's a lot more to know about them. These visuals help, very informative and beautiful. And so thank you from this landlubber lol.
Of course they're non-human persons. The ancient Greeks knew that! "Diviner than the dolphin, nothing is created," said the poet Oppian. We're just too stupid to recognize it. Dr. John C. Lilly, btw, was the first to propose a "Cetacean Bill of Rights," way back in the 1970s.
Thank you, National Geographic. Keep up the good works!!!!
That Feast picture was like the last supper for animals lol
Smarter than we realized? Should we really feel that surprised about it?
Very misleading video title, strikes again!
Remember the Simpsons episode where dolphins returned to the land and took over and enslaved the human race.........
Hahaha
Another Simpsons prediction maybe
and they were right about trump
I wouldnt mind though
Amazing video. Thanks. Dolphins are the best for sure
This was an informative and interesting video, GOOD JOB ! Thank you for sharing it with us.
For that 2nd test, the best way to do it would be to only show it to one Dolphin first. Then that Dolphin would have to communicate the information to the other before they could co-operate.
4:51 DR KUJO- SORRY MY BRAIN BUT I HEARD
I wouldn't be surprised that it was indeed Jotaro that wrote it
I wonder what dolphins think of us.
Now I'm imagining aliens smearing non-toxic paint on a human's face and dumping them in a room with a mirror to see what they do.
I have logged more than 2 hours per day over a 2 year period swimming with Wild Spinner Dolphins. Spintaneous encounters where the Dolphins actually approached me with leaves on their fins in a very deliberate and socially inviting manner, inviting play and teaching me. I have many stories to share about what I saw in the water with them. Beyond anything that we may currently think possible for a human being to share with a wild animal. I believe I was blessed with those profound exoeriences because I never expected the dolphins to play my human games. I enter the Ocean on their terms, by their invitation. I lay very still sometimes in the water anf just feel love and srnd love. Often when I open my eyes the dolphins come like a platoon through the water and begin deliberate play. I have experienced 120 hours of spontaneous interactions at sea in South-Africa when I was a Marine Asset Manager, every encounter was unique and nithing I could have planned or imagined.
When I go in the pool in public beach, favourite activity is floating above the water. If I we're to do something like this with dolphins, would they carry me?
Thank You! That was an awesome talk!
Probably smarter than some people
Would have been cool to capture footage of wild dolphins working with fishermen in Brazil...
Gorgeous photos and amazing animals
dolphins are actually credited for coining the phrase "gang gang" as well
"I don't know with what weapons WW3 will be fought, but WW4 will be fought by dolphins"
* -Albert Ein Stein*
With laser beams on their snouts...
At first I thought the title said "Dolphins: Even Smarter Than You"
I'd like to find a dolphin with an interest in philosophy or the history of their habitat. If we're going to talk about intelligence, we've gotta find individual dolphins with academic interests. I for one think they're fully capable of conceptualizing those sorts of things
Just waiting on the news headline where a software developer outsources his job to dolphins.
Nice and interesting. Our aquatic Einsteins living there fascinating lives.
Somewhere in Australia the dolphins are watching :Humans: smarter than you think"
🎶So long and thanks for all the fish!🎶
bye baby
Ill forever remember my swim with a dolphin, my one experience with a true alien intelligence from planet earth
Angel of the sea, love them too.
This video is simply mind-blowing.
9:41 is basically any person who has ever played any sport showing off some moves to their friends. And we think humans are so much smarter ...
Dolphins are nice little fish, look at their gumdrop smiles.
They are not fish. They are marine mammals, just like us, except in water.
Somewhere, a dolphin is thinking "what did that lady just say to me?" You have to be careful when learning new languages. Once I wanted to tell a Hispanic landscape crew to please NOT share their lunch with my dogs. My syntax must have been flawed, given the horrified looks I got. Turned out, I had asked them not to EAT my dogs. My bad!
Same thing with me. I screwed up Italian while visiting a relative of mine, (his name was Giorno Giovanna) and I asked for squid ink spaghetti, which my grandfather reccomended, and I somehow got raw squid instead.
These pictures are AMAZING 😍 🐬 🐬
The mud thing uses the Fibonacci sequence
Eric Cartmen: *yeah their smart, between two pieces of rye bread with some mayonnaise*
It wonder if this will become easier when they, with their smart minds, realize that our strange behavior and tools when we're around them, is because we want to understand them.
Amzing vido, thanks so much
when someone manages to translate "so long, and thanks for all the fish", ill be able to die happy. someday....
also, that podium reminds me of jeopardy.
You hear a lot about how smart dolphins are but at the end of the day they can't even outwit Travis Moonstar.
For me, Orcas are the most beautiful creatues, love them sooo much!
I"m sure you probably know this already but in case you or others don't know ... Orca are the largest member of the dolphin family.
Kat Wolf and the most intelligent too!:3
Orcas scare me so much. I can’t even see a picture of them without cringing...I wish I wasn’t afraid of them 😭
The way they play with their prey is too gruesome for my taste. I love bottlenose dolphins tho
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
watching this from a tech background sounds like i missed a lot of things in the world Lol, thanks God my research took me to this video.
Some people believe dolphins actually evolved from the same creature humans and apes came from.
+darth telly looooooooooooooooooooool
Well all mammals have genetic links.
Just like Conor said all mammals have the same genetic links from mammals that developed on Pangea before it split to form the continents we know today. If this were not the case, I think Australia would probably have other types of mammals than marsupials.
Brett it's a troll. that's why i commented lol. no way he's stupid enough to think dolphin aren't mammals.
if you go back far enough we all have the same father
Those photographs are incredible
Dolphins are definitely smarter than humans:
- they never fell for the materialistic, egoistic side of life on this planet,
- they don't make wars,
- they don't discriminate,
- they are gentle,
- they practice solidarity and empathy,
- they bring up their children,
- they care for their elders,
- they don't pollute their environment,
and (!)
- they don't brag about being smart.
Raphael Rippinger yea humans are basiclly just destroing the earth.
Exactly. The ability to accumulate and hoard 'stuff' does not make us as smart as we think it does. And any species whose language we don't understand (and sometimes even members of our own species) we write off as stupid
Raphael Rippinger I’ll agree that they’re smarter than you, but that’s about it.
Tejas Nair *They're
Raphael it is possible that they have wars, they have good and bad sides like we do. It is hard to tell without further research. Fact is that they can have bad moods as well.
Very good
i think a Dolphin should have a Reality Show in Dolphinese (ook ook snort ook kree).
Sounds like cardi b
They are highly intelligent!! I love them. Hi Flipper. ♥️
The Bottlenose Dolphin is more intelligent than the Orca.
+LightningToothless i can not believe that a scientist would say the orca is more intelligent then a bottle nosed dolphin as it is very well known in the scientific community that the bottle nosed dolphin is either the 2nd or 3rd most intelligent animal in the world before or after chimps...
Or the first
um humans would be the first lol
recent studies in the last 4 suggest bottle nosed doliphans may actually be smarter then chimpanzees but i understand yea. I was including humans when i said animals
You mean 4 years?
Great, just wonderful!!💓💛💚💙💜😷
This is what Jotaro watches
I can confirm.
Some Orcas have figured out a way to immobilize sharks by putting them in a certain position. Saw this in a documentary - forgot which.
would have been better if they were videos and not just still photos
***** Look at a photograph as a "one-frame" video. A really good one-frame video can be just as good as the longer running kind, sometimes more pleasing, graphically. Be assured, the one-frame videos in this video are among the best you will ever see.
I'm pretty sure this is from a speach given with a power point.
I have to disagree. He's a professional photographer at NG. Its best that he focuses on what he's good at. In the right context a picture can be more interesting than a video, especially if the person who took the photo is explaining the backstory.
If he were to shoot a video it may have taken attention away from his career as a photographer. Photography and Video are very different in the way that they tell stories. Moving pictures develop over time but a photograph is cemented in frame.
well, his art is photography and not videography, use your imagination. beautiful photos
Videos can be distracting to a presentation. When we only hear audio together with still images we tend to focus more on listening to the presenter and use our imagination more.
beautiful
Amazing creation.
A pod of dolphins once approached the Navy ship I was serving on we were at full speed and they only came up to the side ppl were on and they hung out for about a minute then simultaneously took off much faster than we could go on our big bad ship.
I swear they were laughing at us showing is who was truly free
@Ghostie Dragon - No I'm familiar with curious animals this was different it was more the opposite as if they knew we were interested in them
I wish I could be smart like the Dolphins lol
Isn t it considered illegal to interact with dolphins in the U.S? What does the CIA know that we don't?
If you look at their released documents, the CIA knows almost nothing about them. On the other hand, Michael Greenwood, a civilian scientist who worked with dolphins, said "If the U.S. Navy would release what it knows about dolphins, it would revolutionize society." The trick is finding which department has them.
"You can see them screaming, look their mouths are open.".
I spend a lot of time on Guam when I'm tired of Manila. I've had dolphins come up to me several times when I was snorkeling the bomb holes. Beautiful animals.
The speaker is really passionate