I want to be the Bob Vila of dolphins.
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Dolphins recorded having a conversation, evidence of highly developed spoken language
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I want to be the Bob Vila of dolphins.
newshinycd
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So...what's the Dolphinese word for 'Vogon'?
bonesmccoy
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Margaret Howe Lovatt knew this 50 years ago guys
And so so so much more
And so so so much more
Damn. This is amazing but I'm kind of afraid that people will try to weaponize dolphins now. No, seriously. What if you could teach a dolphin to understand English? Dolphin spys everywhere.
One of the top posts in reddit right now, haha:
"Military dolphins help defend the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons"
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/52q76b/til_the_worlds_largest_concentration_of_nukes_is/?st=IT34DFQ7&sh=ef216831
People still do all that shit, and worse.
Anybody have that neogaf thread where that dude was talking about doing it with a dolphin?
I would imagine it's similar to people. There can be good and bad dolphins. Dolphins more inclined to be violent and dolphins more inclined to be kind.
You also figure that people are worse with a mob mentality so I would guess it would work the same way with large groups of dolphins.
I would imagine it's similar to people. There can be good and bad dolphins. Dolphins more inclined to be violent and dolphins more inclined to be kind.
You also figure that people are worse with a mob mentality so I would guess it would work the same way with large groups of dolphins.
While it may be true that dolphins are a highly advanced and intelligent species, as well as beautiful and athletic, there is no truth the rumors that w-dolphins have already fully mastered the English language, or have built their own underwater computer network that is covertly hacked into the existing internet, allowing the glorious dolphin civilization to corrupt the already weakening human tribes. Ha ha ha human laughter
I'd rather not have a contest on what does more fucked up shit with dolphins and people fam lmao
lets just say its fucked up that dolphins are more intelligent and do fucked up shit, and more intelligent species including ourselves do more fucked up shit
some fucking weird symbolic meaning behind that
GrantDaNasty
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It wasn't computers we needed to be afraid of...it was Dolphins.
TERMIDOLPHIN 3: RISE OF THE FINS IN CINEMAS NOW.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
I hate these non news science stories. It kinda like duh with some of this stuff. I guess humans being closer to interpreting non human speech is important though.
They probably ploting tbh.
They probably ploting tbh.
Damn it!
Hesemonni
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Entered the thread for this.
efyu_lemonardo
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So how do we go about learning this language?
One thing I'd want to try is listening to parents communicating with newborns.
One thing I'd want to try is listening to parents communicating with newborns.
For real, I don't want to know what they're saying. It'll probably both depressing and damning.
GrantDaNasty
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The importance here is that we've traditionally always thought humans are the only ones capable of communication via coherent speech, and that other animals communicated only via instinct, body language, smell and what are essentially just barks/growls etc.
We don't.
I've been speaking human for 35 years now and still don't understand our species
Dolphins are racist and don't like black dudes.
efyu_lemonardo
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There's a very good chance they have a word for "human". I wonder how much they know about us.
valkillmore
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What happens when we realize they're smarter than us? All they're missing is opposable thumbs. They figure out how to get those and we are fucked.
Prodigal Son
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First thing that came to mind. Maybe he can stealth retcon LAD as a mammalian thing.
or just say Dolphins are people too.
EDIT: Also can we stop fucking eating these things please?
Dusk Golem
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I can't imagine they think anything pleasant of us, on account we slaughter and enslave them. Though maybe some think we're monsters and others think we're like them, or something like that.
CyclopsRock
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❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans
Nice try, idiots.
‒Geoffrey Willans
Nice try, idiots.
PdotMichael
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Have you ever seen a black dolphin?
valkillmore
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You mean one of 'those' dolphins?
Daffy Duck
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Came for the Hitchhikers Guide reference and left complete.
Aaronrules380
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Yes. They're called Orcas.
efyu_lemonardo
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They slaughter and enslave each other too. Also, despite what some of us do to them they still return the occasional sunken iPhone.
What if "dolphins" are just people dressing up as fish?
JadedWriter
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Jotaro knew it all along.
efyu_lemonardo
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Phelps had a good run, he can say goodbye to any possible medal come 2020.
bigedole
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Daria Morgendorffer
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I wonder what kind of memes they have
SallyIsNow
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Game over, man!
valkillmore
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Dank ones. So dank. And they only listen to vaporwave.
The unruly violent thugs of the sea.
Lord_Byron28
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I can't imagine that the majority of dolphins are aware of the things we do to them.
So what they've done is use 2 microphones to figure out which dolphin is whistling when. The dolphins sometimes take turns whistling, and the whistles differ in frequency so that they might be able to be distinguishable when heard. They then hypothesize that this is a conversation.
That's it. There's no proof. It's just saying they sometimes take turns and make distinguishable sounds.
Until they show something like "This whistle corresponds to food, and this one to sleepiness", it's just an interesting behavior.
That's it. There's no proof. It's just saying they sometimes take turns and make distinguishable sounds.
Until they show something like "This whistle corresponds to food, and this one to sleepiness", it's just an interesting behavior.
This was no joke my first thought - if dolphins are sentient like humans, will religions have to modify their tenets and claim that God wants to save dolphins from their sins too? I guess Islam has a leg up on Christianity wirh this one since there are already other sentient species in that (Jinns).
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