Intelligent, emotional, ingenious: the amazing truth about whales and dolphins
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Published: 05 October 2006
Jumping through watery hoops? Forget it. They can solve problems and use tools. They exhibit joy and grief. They live in complex societies.
And although we have always instinctively thought that cetaceans - whales, dolphins and porpoises - are special members of the animal kingdom, scientific evidence is piling up that they are truly out of the ordinary in terms of their intelligence.
Article Length: 509 words (approx.)
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