Could dolphins be smarter than humans?
This is a really good question because the Dophin brains are bigger than human brains, but the rugs of human brains are deeper, and that means that this structure must have meaning when we are thinking about the level of intelligence. But let's go back to business and think about the level of intelligence (1).
The dolphins and whales might be smarter than most of the animals, and then we are facing one really interesting detail. We haven't even researched the intelligence of the water animals for a very long time. We have taught them the nice tricks, but we haven't researched their ability to solve problems. And then we should ask, what kind of problems we would give those creatures for solving?
What would be a good problem for the sea animal, what it wants to solve? And what kind of problem would keep it interesting about the case, where it must cooperate with the research team, or research team must cooperate with a dolphin.
We don't know are dolphins more intelligent than humans, and we cannot ask that thing from dolphins themselves. The description of the intelligence is the level, how the character would solve problems. And that thing might look simple. But there is a thing, what we must understand.
If we cannot give verbal tests to the test subject, that means we must make some other tests, if we want to find out how fast the creature would solve problems. In this case, there are some kind problems with those tests, where the animal is looking for food from the bags. The dolphin has a sonar system, which allows it to see things, that are hidden in bags, and that's why we must say that dolphin was unfair because it has that sensor, that we don't have.
Or what if dolphin doesn't like that fish at all? If those creatures would be intelligent, they might be individuals, which means that maybe the dolphin doesn't like some fish species, which might taste different in the mouth of dolphins.
And dolphin is so different, what we are, that we cannot say, how that creature would solve problems. Does it only use its sonar or does it use some kind of thinking process in those cases? The question is does the high level of intelligence require the ability to communicate with other members of the group?
And what if the communication between the dolphins is minimum, but those creatures could solve problems? When we are thinking about the intelligence level of dolphins and their language, we are just about 20 years researched the communication of the animals. And during those researches, the sounds of the dolphins have been recorded and then played to other groups.
Then the researchers have been followed by the reactions of the group, and that thing makes the research very difficult. If we would want to find out, what the communication between the dolphins involves we should research them in the natural environment. And that means that we should have very good equipment, which can operate independently even years and observe those animals even years that way, that they cannot notice it.
In the natural environment, the language of the animals is acting like human language. It would be rich, and there would be many terms and details. In prison, the language of the animals would be poor, like human beings and they would be stressed.
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