Dynamic Dolphin Tweets Serving As A Reminder That They Are Both An Intelligent & Awesome Species (10 Tweets)

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kalila courban
Jan 20, 2023 1:00 PM EST

Our interest in dolphins must have started in about 2005 when we first saw "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy…" "Earth: Mostly Harmless." Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time." That stuck with us. When the dolphins bounced and said "so long and thanks for all the fish" we felt that. 

While intelligence is difficult to quantify in any organism, many studies suggest that dolphins are second only to us humans in smarts. Using brain size as a barometer, dolphins come in second only to humans in the brain-to-body size ratio. However, dolphins also excel intelligence-based tests. Bottlenose dolphins have bigger brains than humans (1600 grams versus 1300 grams), and they have a brain-to-body-weight ratio greater than great apes do (but lower than humans). So yeah, if any species would be smart enough to escape an apocalypse on planet earth, it would definitely be dolphins. In honor of their intelligence and awesomeness, we put together 10 dolphin tweets from the past month that we could not help but smile at. Enjoy! 

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