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Dolphin intelligence is expressed and
tested in many different ways.
Recently at the Rowitan Institute for
Marine Sciences in Honduras, trainer
Terry Bolton has been working on a skill
that we humans clearly associate with
intelligence, reading.
So, who's this?
This is Sadena. This is her daughter,
Pigeon.
And the baby doesn't want to leave mama.
No, the baby is she's not independent
enough yet. She's only seven months old.
So, yeah, she's going to be floating
around behind mama a little bit.
Terry and the trainer Kenley have gotten
some of their dolphins to understand a
command by reading it as a
two-dimensional picture written on a
board.
So, the waves on this symbol
means speed run, swim fast.
Clearly, she got that one right.
Sadena has 12 symbols in her vocabulary
so far.
Next up, jump.
Excellent.
When she screams like that, what is she
doing?
She's responding to his bridge saying
correct and she's saying yes I am. Yes.
You expected less.
Just when all was going so well, we
noticed that Pigeon had gotten a little
bored and swam away.
So, how will that affect Sadena's
reading test?
a tail walk.
She got that one wrong. Kenley gives
Sadena the command to go find her
daughter.
When the babies swim off into areas of
the lagoon that the moms don't want them
to be in or they get a little bit too
far away, the moms will sometimes do a
behavior that enables them to see where
their babies are at because that's their
primary focus is their baby. It seems
that like with any working mom, Sadena
has to juggle the competing demands of
pleasing her boss and ultimately taking
care of her kid.
So, we got the baby feel comfortable.
We'll go back. Let's try it again. Yep.
Come on. So, you can do this.
Yeah. Good girl.
So, she got it right this time. She got
it right this time. Look where Pigeon
is. Pigeon's occupied where she can see
her.