Dolphins may have humans matched on almost every other prerequisite for planetary dominance, but they can’t finish the job because they lack hands. Schulz is an author on a new study finding that dolphins’ social behaviour is basically an aquatic version of human society. Along with other whales, dolphins give themselves names, they have language dialects, they raise children as a group and they care for their elders. “Many cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are also organized in hierarchical social structures and display an astonishing breadth of cultural and prosocial behaviours,” reads the report. Their conclusion was that the more complicated a whale’s social life, the smarter they became.

Source: National Post October 19, 2017 12:33 UTC