Sapient Cetaceans: Difference between revisions

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''Damekko_Dōbutsu'' has a sentient orca that cannot swim and uses a life preserver.

* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) apparently believes this trope to be [[Truth in Television]], given that they sued Sea World for allegedly enslaving orcas by making them do animal shows without pay.

** On a less lunatic note, many marine biologists believe the bottle nose dolphin may well be sapient. The difficulty of establishing communications between our species has made the testing of this hypothesis difficult.

* Scientists have discovered dolphins use lower-pitched, slower sounds when interacting with humans. This appears to be very purposeful on their part, which suggests dolphins have realized we cannot hear the kinds of sounds they normally use to interact with each other. That's right: dolphins speak very slowly and purposefully when dealing with us, because they've figured out we're stupid.

* As mentioned above, dolphins may well be sapient, though due to fundamental limitations of their body and their environment, it's unlikely that they can ever form a civilization as humanity would recognize it, let alone develop technology.