In a message dated 8/23/01 9:20:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes:
>
> There is no evidence that dolphins are as smart as chimpanzees.
> They fail the mirror recognition test, and on other tests that
> researchers have conducted in the past decade, their performance
> is *not* impressive.
>
I heard some dolphins passed it recently. Anyone else hear that? Their
cerebral cortex is quite convoluted, by the way--traditionally an indication
of a species' intelligence.
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