ONLY "tree-huggers", need read this

[tommy7]

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=6947681&src=news

Pretty cool...hugh?

[SDspearo]

Cool.

Although sometimes I have a problem with humans helping distressed marine mamaals--are we making up for our past mis deeds or are we further f-ing up the darwinian chain of events?

[tommy7]

Cool.

Although sometimes I have a problem with humans helping distressed marine mamaals--are we making up for our past mis deeds or are we further f-ing up the darwinian chain of events?

Lots of stories of them helping us (shipwrecked/man overboard sailors)...I sure hope that they don't question the morality of saving my big butt if it were to happen :p

[OzZ_]

I hug trees when I'm drunk to stand up. But that's pretty cool. :)

[Bill McIntyre]

I heard that one on NPR today. Pretty damn cool.

And in reply to SDSpearo- humans were not able to do a damn thing for those whales. They were about to euthanasize them when the dolphin came along, "talked" to them, and led them down the beach to a channel through the sand bar to safety.

Of course I wasn't there, but if its true, then its a hell of a story, and raises a lot of questions.

[deckhandmike]

HAHA I had to rescue a baby elephant seal at work the other day, I put on my game face big time.

[NOTANX]

I heard that one on NPR today. Pretty damn cool.

And in reply to SDSpearo- humans were not able to do a damn thing for those whales. They were about to euthanasize them when the dolphin came along, "talked" to them, and led them down the beach to a channel through the sand bar to safety.

Of course I wasn't there, but if its true, then its a hell of a story, and raises a lot of questions.

yes, sometimes counseling does work:D

[jdeirmend]

If true, it is this sort of story that confirms what many have suspected for quite some time. Namely, that more than one species of marine mammal has intelligence that at least approximates human intelligence.

Being a Godless heathen of sorts, I think it is true that all of us animals have crawled up from the same night-like abyss of blind will that characterizes the simplest forms of life, and that every sort of living creature is moving towards the ultimate end of self-consciousness as time rolls forward. Perhaps it is true that human beings have been the first to arrive there, but perhaps it is also true that we weren't meant to be alone amongst creatures in this respect.

What a privliege it is for us to watch members of other species standing at the threshold of self-understanding, and to have the eerie hunch, because of the self-understanding we possess, that that's what they're moving towards. I'm more than content to have moral respect for such creatures . . . so long as the rest of them don't get there in a hurry. Because then, I couldn't justifiably hunt! :)

[apneanaut]

Woah, that was deep ^. Mammals in general have survived by taking care of eachother, I think it's only natural that this spills over between species sometimes. Like the lost kitten that is taken in by a mother pig.

[SamoSpearo]

If true, it is this sort of story that confirms what many have suspected for quite some time. Namely, that more than one species of marine mammal has intelligence that at least approximates human intelligence.



whoa, whoa, whoa... I havent seen any dolphins navigating this here interweb or using tools to harvest food so they can sit on their fat dolphin ass and watch their plasma tv. Although they may have passed the mirror test and enjoy getting freaky, I dunno if that approximates human intelligence. It would be cool if dolphins and whales were able to communicate between species... I bet there are some marine scientists getting a raging research boner right now.:lol:

[Bob Ballew]

I'm with Kennen.., "Kill'um all, before pollution does"........