[Olog-hai]

No; it is still instinct. And are other senses that dolphins possess being omitted here, such as their electroreceptive abilities?

[dfwgator]

When’s the last time they made the playoffs?

[oh8eleven]

Dolphins can problem solve like humans ...
As Rush has said - Let me know when they build their first hospital.

[G-Bear]

I believe they are drawing the wrong conclusion from their experiment. I would posit that their primary means of locating objects in the water is their echolocation.

A better experiment would be to instruct the dolphin to mimic a humans actions, leave the blindfold off, and introduce enough noise in the water to jam the dolphins sonar. Thus seeing if the dolphin could mimic the human trainers’ actions by eyesight alone.

[red devil 40]

No if humans could only figure out how to get out of those damn fishing nets......

[Blood of Tyrants]

I wish I had know this in college so they could have helped me with differential equations.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I would vote for one if it ran against McConnell or Boehner

[jboot]

Dolphins: a future Democrat constituency. First grant them personhood and follow up with a Swimmer-Voter act. Hand out frozen herring on election day and they will vote donk by the pod.

[Cowboy Bob]

I bet they are SMARTER then some people residing in public housing.

[onedoug]

“Now boys, after I’ve had my dinner I’ll tell you all I know about this Tarazan-Flash Gordon person.”

[I want the USA back]

Dolphins are smarter than we give them credit for, but this is not problem solving.

Furthermore, this is about ONE dolphin. For this to approach being a scientific study, it has to be done with hundreds of dolphins.

But that’s not the problem. The problem is the obsession with finding that humans are not really the most intelligent creatures on Earth, and proving that humans are really just the same as other animals.

[dainbramaged]

If dolphins are so smart, why don't they jump over the cork line of the tuna net and escape? Jacques Cousteau was asked that question many years ago and said yes, they are very intelligent but they do not possess human intelligence. Big difference.

[Nervous Tick]

Every living thing “solves problems”.

Finding food or a mate is “solving a problem”.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

No doubt dolphins think of humans as idiots to be pitied.

[Bikkuri]

Give the dolphins arms, hands and fingers.. and I bet they can vote better than 47%(+) of the people too...

[KarlInOhio]

...man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[JoeProBono]

[Cyman]

Good. I hope they can figure out what is killing them on the eastern seaboard

[The Great RJ]

Gee I don’t recall seeing anything about dolphins building shelters or using tools and fire.

[Hot Tabasco]

Maybe one day they’ll figure out how to avoid those darn fishing nets.........