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Another great story.Why would we think that whales etc. don't have family ties?? They are easily as intelligent as us, just display it in a different way. Weight for weight, if you ignore the blubber, whales brains are generally larger than ours and they survive in places we could definitely not. We should see them as equal but different.
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A wonderful story of how these humans worked to help the whales. And the strength of their love for each other.
Many animals are intelligent and understand when they are being helped, and when they are being threatened.
I also saw a video some time ago, of a man freeing a wild wolf who had become tangled up badly in a wire fence. The wolf held very still as the man worked to free it. It knew what was going on.
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(This post was last modified: 08-28-2014, 02:21 PM by Catherine.)
Animals seem to be able to tell a friendly human from an unfriendly one.
They know that humans can help and they will often seek a human to help them in an emergency.
Whales are definitely intelligent. We have no idea how to determine how intelligent they are. We can't compare them to ourselves because they are so different. Different, but equal, maybe so. If we started from that point we might begin to understand them a little.
It does make trained whale shows a problem.What I mean and how this sounds are not quite the same thing. I just can't think of how to put my idea so that is says what I really mean. I don't like any trained animals shows.
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Trained Whale shows have always been a problem. No-one should ever have come up with that idea -and the same goes for Dolphins.
Whales need to be in the open ocean, with their families, and far away from any humans who cannot understand them.