Do you think dolphins have as much intelligence as us or possibly more?

Question

lets face it they are not on the food chain in their world they play better than us

Answer 1

Yes and possibly yes.

Answer 2

They are waaaaay more intelligent than  us, no McDonalds under the sea, no c**p music, no gas guzzling cars, all look beautiful, no wars....far more intelligent species.

Answer 3

Well they are in the top three (watch out for the mice.....they're realllly smart)

Answer 4

Dumb as a box of rocks. That dolphin intelligence thing is blown out of proportion. It is just that they have special radar skills and are very playful.

Answer 5

i do not think that dolphins are as intelligent as us people, i mean come on, who built buildings and highway?  people, i don't see no dolphins........

Answer 6

im sure of it....when was the last dolphin war?   or the last major wepon of destruction they made....???  how much pollution they create???   they do have bigger brains!

Answer 7

Killer whales love them for lunch.

Intelligence is measured by the way one utilises the brain in any given situation.

So 20 metres down in the sea, I would look pretty stupid to a Dolphin, likewise a Dolphin would look pretty stupid hitch hiking along the M.6.

Answer 8

i don't think they are as intelligent as us, i once short changed a dolphin from a 20 quid note for a packet of 20 bensons.

ps: they jump through hoops for our entertainment at the blow of a whistle and a mackeral

Answer 9

Oh, man, look out for those fish nets!  Yeah, they're way better at adapting to a changing environment...right.  Take that, stupid fish-mammals!

Answer 10

Probably more.  We do a lot of stupid things!

Answer 11

I lost about $300 to a couple of bottlenosers the other night in a poker game. Good statisticians those aqueous mammals are.

Answer 12

The US Navy has trained dolphins to dive down to enemy submarines, with explosives attached to them, which then detonate by proximity fuse. That doesn't seem too smart to me. Also, the pacific islanders have learned how to attract them, kill and eat them, and they often get entangled in fishing nets. Too many people have a false idea of them: male dolphins pack rape solitary females, and kill lesser species of dolphin, so I urge you to educate yourself on the subject.

Answer 13

Just like all the other mammal's, not as intelligent, but much more common sense.

Answer 14

Haven't you ever read "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?

Humans are the third most intelligent lifeform . . .

Dolphins are second and are trying to warn us of the impending disaster that our world is soon to be blown up . . .

And mice are the most intelligent lifeforms (you'd have to read the book to understand this one).

Answer 15

all i know is that i don't have to catch my fish to survive. I buy it from a shop or better still have someone else cook it for me so i supose that make's me more intelligent!!!

Answer 16

They're also the only other species who has s*x for fun and commits rape apparently.

Answer 17

actually i think they may be smarter than people...

Answer 18

There was a dolphin used to sit beside me in school and he was well thick. He couldn't even write. But when it came to games class, especially swimming, he was always first.

Answer 19

Smarter

Answer 20

It's about time you Earthlings tried to see the BIG PICTURE, when it come to 'intelligence'.

Answer 21

No, otherwise they'd be travelling to the moon by now. But I do think that in their underwater world they and the whales are probably the superior species.

Answer 22

Intelligence is relative.

There are a lot of stupid people out there, but we're supposedly the most intelligent species.

We tend to rate it according to what we know. Someone who knows a lot in our world, to us, is taken to be intelligence.

Its not of course. Intelligence is the ability to understand, devise and recognise.

Knowing is just memory.

I dont believe we are necessarily the most intelligent species on this earth, but we are the most knowledgable by far.

At least, we think we are.

Answer 23

Plus they are not killing each other and polluting the planet, so it makes you wonder....

Answer 24

Well I really think they have more intellegence than us, humans because they know what to do when something not expected happens they actually know  how to react and what to do!!!

~Hoped this helped!

Answer 25

Dolphin intelligence is under fire, but are these arguments over brain size relevant in the face of overwhelming behavioral evidence? Dolphins have been known to display almost all of the qualities which we would consider uniquely human, qualities that we would consider a mark of ‘higher’ intelligence. They are tool users, they are highly creative (perhaps even artistic), they enjoy recreational and social activities, from surfing (either on waves or around the prow of boats) to s*x, and they have proven time and time again that they are self-aware. They’ve also formed symbiotic relationships with fisherman, and recent reports suggest that dolphins even have names for each other. But perhaps Douglas Adams said it best in the Hitchhiker’s Guide: “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 believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.”

Answer 26

Dolphins are intelligent for there environment.  

It would depending how you did an intelligent test as to how they would score.  If you did echolocation dolphins and blind people would pass, while people who see fail.

If you asked them genal knowledge question then no

Answer 27

No.

Intelligence is a construct to distinguish between human behavior.

Things that don't think as humans do can't be called intelligent.

That doesn't make them unintelligent or even not smart.