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Awesome!!!!
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...wait that's not the song.
I couldn't downvote this if I were paid to. By the power of Greyskull I summon this video to the top of the top 15
they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.
The power of the ring, it's everywhere!
Re Mink: You realize dolphins are Carnivores, right? They eat a ton of thinking, loving fish.
Re GuyIncognito and Fade: I don't have any ethical problem with the situation these dolphins are in.
they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.
i like my cage. i put posters up and everything.
and i blow smoke rings. and enjoy it just as much as they do.
with or without a prefrontal lobe.
sigh ...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this
Bwahahahaha!!
So... long... and thanks... for... all... the fish.
WTF is that supposed to mean?
i should eat animals because dolphins do?
the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYp_Xi4AtAQ
Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.
IIRC cetaceans(dolphins, whales etc) are always half asleep, one hemisphere of the brain keeping them swimming/breathing at a time. They are doing this VERY complicated activity with, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say, half their brain tied behind their back.
While their brains are no doubt wired much better then ours for complicated 3D comprehension, to be able to model and direct a complicated system of invisible hydrodynamic flows in such a way as to maintain a vortex which will hold a ring of air underwater contrary to its buoyancy, and to do it as a learned behavior is more evidence for sentience then I have seen from any human I have ever met.
rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?
the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!
It's better than talking our heads off after sex.
aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there
HE HAS A HEART????
this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.
they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.
And they also taste delicious.
Man humans are such dicks.
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how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??
I read the explanation posted in a previous comment, and it sounds like they make a rotating column of water (with their tails?), then shoot a bunch of bubbles into it - centrifugal force (from the rotating water) pushes the bubbles outward, and presumably some sort of friction where the rotating and non-rotating water meet keeps the bubbles from escaping. Even more impressive is that they're able to analyze the quality of the ring and then decide to blow another one to augment it, or if the ring is poor they'll let it go. These things are damned smart, it appears.
I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.
I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.
I just found a ref on this, EEG studies show that dolphins are in half brain sleep only 8hrs a day, so the answer to my IIRC is no I did not recall correctly
That is unbelievable. Almost as much as this exceeding 200 votes, and so quickly!!! Congrats laura.
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> Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!
oui. et très *happy