捕鯨とクジラ保護

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I discovered dolphins have a sense of humour. They play practical jokes. They tease. They poke fun by exaggerated mimicry. They practice motor skills diligently. They experiment. They love novelty. They have a way of being with you with total intelligent attention. If you ask them, they will create acrobatics never seen before. If you are disrespectful, they will throw the fish back at you. They get impatient when tasks are too easy. Dolphins process sound ten times faster than humans. They jitter at you to hurry up your communications. Dolphins are not animals in the usual sense. Dolphins have brains larger than humans, and whales have considerably larger brains than dolphins.
ＭＳＲ（鏡による自己認識）をパスする。
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101086398v1
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The ability to recognize oneself in a mirror is an exceedingly rare capacity in the animal kingdom. To date, only humans and great apes have shown convincing evidence of mirror self-recognition.Two dolphins were exposed to reflective surfaces, and both demonstrated responses consistent with the use of the mirror to investigate marked parts of the body.

The first evidence for MSR in a nonhuman species was experimentally demonstrated in the common chimpanzee (1), but numerous subsequent attempts showed no convincing evidence of self-recognition in a variety of other primates and nonprimates, including monkeys, lesser apes, and elephants (12-18).

阿呆し放題ahosidai 　 5365＞ちなみに鏡に映った自分の姿を自分と認識できるのは、類人猿と人だけだそうです。
これは高等動物かそうでないかの線引きにされます。

それで、君は大型類人猿（高知能動物、人類の仲間）は食べていけないと思うのだね？

阿呆し放題 5419 ＞そうですね。まあ食べたいとも思いませんが。クジラ食うのとはまた違った議論になりませんか

阿呆し放題恥のベタ塗り（４巻）より
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形態模写もできるクジラ類の知能が高いのは、４０年前からの科学的常識である。
これに異論を唱える動物行動学者など一人もいない。