Do Dolphins Recognize Each Other by Name?

[scott1]

Whistles are used for individual recognition
DOLPHINS may be closer to humans than previously realized, with new research showing they communicate by whistling out their own “names”.

The evidence suggests dolphins share the human ability to recognise themselves and other members of the same species as individuals with separate identities. The research, on wild bottlenose dolphins, will lead to a reassessment of their intelligence and social complexity, raising moral questions over how they should be treated.

Could they possible be able to envole in the near futre into an intellgent speices?
http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/5548/dolphins5js.gif

 

[scott_alexsk]

Not near more like distant. [ok enough laughing at scott1]
-scott

 

[quasi426]

The only way they would evolve to become more intelligent would be if they were not fit to live in their environment (dying off basically) and that being more intelligent would increase their fitness (ability to survive.) Things to evolve to be "better" unless the environment requies it (natural selection.)

 

[Skyhunter]

Could they possible be able to envole in the near futre into an intellgent speices?
http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/5548/dolphins5js.gif

I think they are already an intelligent species. Technology is not the only measure of a species intelligence.

 

[Skyhunter]

The only way they would evolve to become more intelligent would be if they were not fit to live in their environment (dying off basically) and that being more intelligent would increase their fitness (ability to survive.) Things to evolve to be "better" unless the environment requies it (natural selection.)

I disagree with your assessment of evolution. I do not believe that natural selection alone is the mechanism that spurs species to evolve. I do believe that it is a major part of evolution and determines the form that species take as they adjust to conditions within their environment. Whatever forms life takes the goal of evolution is the same.

Evolution is the process wherein which the universe becomes aware of itself.

 

[Hootenanny]

My god, Anti-Dolphin.org is a real organisation! :eek;

http://www.bluealien.org/subdomains/anti-dolphin/

They even do mugs!

~H