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** They were already rather intelligent before uplift, they and the larger whales sharing a unique way of thinking referred to as the "Whale Dream". And whale songs are treasured by many alien races.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' [[The Verse|'verse]] establishes that dolphins were recognized as sapient beings [[Alternate History|in the late 20th century]]. Not long after they sue us for our whaling practices in a suit that literally takes hundreds of years to get through the court system (the dolphins enjoy it too much to let it resolve).
* The 1986 computer novel ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20020603195216/http://portal.stodge.org/ Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval]'' gets downright philosophical:
{{quote|''Man does not take time to think things over, to sing about them completely. Too much like a monkey, they say. That's the problem with having hands, they say. Always trying to put them on things, move them around, turn them over.
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