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Are dolphins smarter than humans?

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Dolphins aren’t equipped with the kinds of limbs necessary for creating tools, buildings, and machines like humans are. Perhaps their very physical makeup makes them more disposed towards communicating with each other in elaborate ways (some scientists have surmised that dolphin “speech” may consist of as many as 60,000 “words”, or more). read more

Each dolphin possesses a “signature whistle,” and it’s hypothesized that whistle is the dolphin equivalent of a name. Unlike some people, dolphins appear to remember the names of fellow dolphins years after they last met. While their language doesn’t make dolphins smarter than humans, it appears to be more universal. read more

Trying to compare us would be like comparing apples to oranges. We are both mammals but dolphins live in the ocean and humans live on land. There are a couple of ways where dolphins are definitely smarter than humans. They live with their environment in a non-harmful way while we are polluting ourselves into extinction. read more

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