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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.094005.8843@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:40:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.185151.4599@ariel.ec.usf.edu> mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
-
- >Actually, this isn't quite as funny as it sounds.
- >A number of the chimpanzees that learned how to
- >"talk" (let's start a controversy here) are now
- >neglected. What rights chimpanzees and possibly
- >gorillas should have is unclear, but the law regards
- >them as animals. Potentially more embarrassing
- >is the status of bottlenose dolphins, who seem to
- >have a weaker (different?) spatial sense than humans,
- >but may actually be more developed in other ways.
- >If Dr Lilly arrives at the Supreme Court with an
- >English-Delphinese dictionary, nobody should be too
- >surprised. But what about tuna fishing, not to
- >mention our relations with Japan?
-
- Gregory, what are these "other ways" in which dolphins may be more
- developed than us? You imply that they are components of
- intelligence. Persoanlly, I think that's bullshit. Put up or shut
- up.
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