do you think dolphins have as much intelligence as us or possibly more?

Question

lets face it they are not on the food chain in their world they play better than us

Answer 1

Dolphin intelligence is under fire, but are these arguments over brain size relevant in the face of overwhelming behavioral evidence? Dolphins have been known to display almost all of the qualities which we would consider uniquely human, qualities that we would consider a mark of ‘higher’ intelligence. They are tool users, they are highly creative (perhaps even artistic), they enjoy recreational and social activities, from surfing (either on waves or around the prow of boats) to sex, and they have proven time and time again that they are self-aware. They’ve also formed symbiotic relationships with fisherman, and recent reports suggest that dolphins even have names for each other. But perhaps Douglas Adams said it best in the Hitchhiker’s Guide: “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 believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.”

Answer 2

Killer whales love them for lunch.

Intelligence is measured by the way one utilises the brain in any given situation.

So 20 metres down in the sea, I would look pretty stupid to a Dolphin, likewise a Dolphin would look pretty stupid hitch hiking along the M.6.

Answer 3

Intelligence is relative.

There are a lot of stupid people out there, but we're supposedly the most intelligent species.
We tend to rate it according to what we know. Someone who knows a lot in our world, to us, is taken to be intelligence.

Its not of course. Intelligence is the ability to understand, devise and recognise.
Knowing is just memory.

I dont believe we are necessarily the most intelligent species on this earth, but we are the most knowledgable by far.
At least, we think we are.

Answer 4

The US Navy has trained dolphins to dive down to enemy submarines, with explosives attached to them, which then detonate by proximity fuse. That doesn't seem too smart to me. Also, the pacific islanders have learned how to attract them, kill and eat them, and they often get entangled in fishing nets. Too many people have a false idea of them: male dolphins pack rape solitary females, and kill lesser species of dolphin, so I urge you to educate yourself on the subject.

Answer 5

Dolphins are intelligent for there environment.
It would depending how you did an intelligent test as to how they would score. If you did echolocation dolphins and blind people would pass, while people who see fail.
If you asked them genal knowledge question then no

Answer 6

Haven't you ever read "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?

Humans are the third most intelligent lifeform . . .

Dolphins are second and are trying to warn us of the impending disaster that our world is soon to be blown up . . .

And mice are the most intelligent lifeforms (you'd have to read the book to understand this one).

Answer 7

There was a dolphin used to sit beside me in school and he was well thick. He couldn't even write. But when it came to games class, especially swimming, he was always first.

Answer 8

i don't think they are as intelligent as us, i once short changed a dolphin from a 20 quid note for a packet of 20 bensons.


ps: they jump through hoops for our entertainment at the blow of a whistle and a mackeral

Answer 9

I lost about $300 to a couple of bottlenosers the other night in a poker game. Good statisticians those aqueous mammals are.

Answer 10

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