Why Am I thinking So long and thanks for all the fish?

[Xue Sheng]

Dolphins in one western Australian population have beenobserved holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake afish into their mouths -- and the behavior may be spreading.

Read this

Then this

It's an important and popular fact that things are not alwayswhat they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed thatHE was the most-intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the THIRDmost-intelligent. The second most-intelligent creatures were, of course,dolphins who - curiously enough - had long known of the impending destructionof the planet Earth. They made many attempts to alert Mankind to the danger,but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts topunch footballs or whistle for tidbits. So they eventually decided they wouldleave Earth by their own means. The last-ever dolphin message wasmisinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backwardsomersault through a hoop while whistling "The Star-Spangled Banner".But, in fact, the message was this: SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!"

Now what do you Think :uhyeah:

 

[Nomad]

Don't Panic. I have my towel.

 

[Balrog]

42.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Anyone been to Alpha Centauri lately because I'm guessing this means the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty Earth years

 

[MA-Caver]

I read the same article about conch shells and dolphins and such and honestly I wasn't surprised at all. We know so little about these wonderful animals and while we know that they are very intelligent, some say smarter than dogs or chimps, we really just don't know just HOW intelligent they are. It's obvious that they have a language but how sophisticated the language is still a mystery.
They may have been doing the conch shell thing for a long long time but we just now are beginning to notice it or that they are (like us) still evolving and have achieved a new level of intelligence and are now displaying it.

who knows... but until they are wholly protected we may as well file it all under unsolved animal mysteries.

 

[clfsean]

Simple. 42.

 

[Em MacIntosh]

Spindle cells are at the top of the heirarchy of biological intelligence. They are comparitively enormous neurons that interlink multiple sections of the brain. It's the greatest yardstick to use when trying to determine the sophistication of any other brain compared with that of a human. A gorilla's brain is well built and more than adequate for its environment so intelligence isn't really an effective method of comparing them to us. Nevertheless, we generally have almost 20 times the spindle cells they do and they are next on the list, which puts us way above dolphins.

Of course, that could just be what they want us to think.