The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be (2003)

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."

I can't wait for the day that we are able to give a dolphin a brainwave controlled arm prosthetic and some building material/tools. I feel they're just as smart as humans but we just brush them off as stupid because they haven't built anything. But I man what do you really expect from them? They have flippers for hands and minimal resources to build anything.

Meanwhile, the more dolphins study man, the dumber we turn out to be.

You have to wonder, if they had hands and arms instead of flippers, they might have built civilizations like humans have.

Naw, the irony is that we think that we are studying the dolphins while, actually, the dolphins are studying us and we still have not yet caught on to that! We're the ones in the zoo cage! And the dolphins are so smart that they can study and understand us without use of hands, computers, cameras, etc.

Would it be interesting science or newsworthy if dolphins ended up being bad at something? Isn't this just a form of selection bias?

Way back in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd had a dolphin "pet" in his home by the sea. Some people say he could talk to the dolphins, but I think that's just silly, something out of a movie.

We should stop studying them before they get brighter than us and overthrow humanity.

That is such a (I don&#x27;t know word to express my feelings...) &quot;offensive&quot;?, &quot;humano-centric&quot;? &quot;hubris filled&quot;? title. And exemplifies and perpetuates humankind&#x27;s atrocious relationship with our fellow earthlings.<p>Dolphins are not turning out to be brighter. They were&#x2F;are as bright as they always have been. Humans are the ones changing, losing a bit more of our ignorance and hubris.<p>This is still so pervasive that most people don&#x27;t even recognize that as an &quot;issue&quot;. Just like people hundreds of years ago wouldn&#x27;t be phazed by the title &quot;Negroid race is turning out to not be savage sub-humans after all&quot;.