Dolphins are regarded as the
friendliest creatures in the sea and stories of them helping drowning sailors have been common since Roman times. The more we learn about dolphins, the more
we realize that their society is more complex than people previously imagined.
They look after other dolphins when they are ill, care for pregnant mothers and
protect the weakest in the community, as we do. Some scientists have suggested
that dolphins have a language but it is much more probable that they
communicate with each other without needing words. Could any of these mammals
be more intelligent than man? Certainly the most common argument in favor of
man's superiority over them that we can kill them more easily than they can
kill us is the least satisfactory. On the contrary, the more we discover about
these remarkable creatures, the less we appear superior when we destroy them.
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