I hope the ban stays in place and SeaWorld goes out of business. These animals are deeply intelligent, social creatures and they don’t deserve to spends their lives in concrete tanks.
Dolphins May Be Dumber Than We Think
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"For more than 50 years, the dolphin has been viewed as an especially intelligent creature, grouped together with human beings and great apes. But now a dispute on the subject has erupted among scientists, and the smart aleck of the seas may end up being just an average mammal. "We put them on a pedestal for no reason and projected a lot of our desires and wishes on them," says neuroethologist Paul Manger of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. According to the professor, the claims that dolphins have a particularly complex brain, use a sophisticated language, are self-aware and can use tools are nonsense."