From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Oct 28 1998 - 22:24:49 MST
> bostrom@ndirect.co.uk writes:
>
> << That dolphins don't have abstract language was recently
> established in a very elegant experiment. A pool is divided into two
> halves by a net. Dolphin A is released into one end of the pool where...
> ...The idea is that if the dolphins had a language, then A
> would tell B to operate the mechanism. However, it was found that the
> average time for B to operate the mechanism was the same as for A.
> >>
>
> CALYK@aol.com wrote: Perhaps dolphin A knew dolphin B would
> figure it out and let him have the prize of discovery.
nah. the investigators used a male and female dolphin. the otherwise
communicative sea mammals were pissed off at each other that day and
were not talking... {8^D spike
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