THE DOLFINS: THE CLOSEST, THE MOST ABUSED
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:23 pmDolphins: the closest, the most abused.
Surfing on the net I discovered some information about dolphins. In the set of information that I found, what I find most interesting are two things.On the one hand the issue of language. Apparently some groups have studied the subject in depth. I don’t know what kind of credibility can be given to the information, the truth is that it is impressive.
“The text which will follow is maybe of the most important ever written in this end of the Century and could be compared to a Copernical revolution.
For the first time in its history, Humankind must cope with the evidence a of a perfectly elaborated non-human language, endowed with its own syntax and open vocabulary.
It seems now definetly proved that dolphins, belugas, orcas, whales, spermwhales and all other cetaceans are speaking to each other by the means of local dialects that they learned during their childhood.
Of course, we still don't know WHAT cetaceans are telling but one fact is sure : their language is able to carry concepts and abstract informations and could even be more sophisticated - in the case of bottlenose dolphins - than any known human language.
(For this particular question, read : Alexander Zanin and Vladimir Markov's study : "The ability of bottlenose dolphins trusiops truncatus to report arbitrary information" in the below mentionned NATO volume)
We choosed to publish only few pages of the global study with some of tables and impressive illustrations, so we engage our readers to go back to the source, which is a quite interesting collective research book issued by the NATO scientific services and Harderwijck dolfinarium.
You'll find in it a lot of other quite interesting studies, like : "Acoustic behavior of Mysticete whales"(C.Clark) or "Non-acoustic communication in small cetaceans : glance, touch, position, gesture and bubbles" by Karen W. Pryor.“
Infortunately I have found information about the film “The Cove”. Anyone has seen?
You can see more information in
www.spoutingoff.wordpress.com
Surfing on the net I discovered some information about dolphins. In the set of information that I found, what I find most interesting are two things.On the one hand the issue of language. Apparently some groups have studied the subject in depth. I don’t know what kind of credibility can be given to the information, the truth is that it is impressive.
“The text which will follow is maybe of the most important ever written in this end of the Century and could be compared to a Copernical revolution.
For the first time in its history, Humankind must cope with the evidence a of a perfectly elaborated non-human language, endowed with its own syntax and open vocabulary.
It seems now definetly proved that dolphins, belugas, orcas, whales, spermwhales and all other cetaceans are speaking to each other by the means of local dialects that they learned during their childhood.
Of course, we still don't know WHAT cetaceans are telling but one fact is sure : their language is able to carry concepts and abstract informations and could even be more sophisticated - in the case of bottlenose dolphins - than any known human language.
(For this particular question, read : Alexander Zanin and Vladimir Markov's study : "The ability of bottlenose dolphins trusiops truncatus to report arbitrary information" in the below mentionned NATO volume)
We choosed to publish only few pages of the global study with some of tables and impressive illustrations, so we engage our readers to go back to the source, which is a quite interesting collective research book issued by the NATO scientific services and Harderwijck dolfinarium.
You'll find in it a lot of other quite interesting studies, like : "Acoustic behavior of Mysticete whales"(C.Clark) or "Non-acoustic communication in small cetaceans : glance, touch, position, gesture and bubbles" by Karen W. Pryor.“
Infortunately I have found information about the film “The Cove”. Anyone has seen?
You can see more information in
www.spoutingoff.wordpress.com