{"id":11715,"date":"2006-08-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/18\/researcher-dophins-are-stupid\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:00:00","slug":"researcher-dophins-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/18\/researcher-dophins-are-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher: Dophins are Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/7FF1A9D2-FEEB-4340-A0DA-DE92AF6C49EC.htm\">english.aljazeera.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, August 18, 2006: Dolphins may have big brains, but a South African-based scientist says laboratory rats and even goldfish can outwit them. Paul Manger of Johannesburg&#8217;s University of the Witwatersrand says the super-sized brains of dolphins are a function of being warm-blooded in a cold water environment and not a sign of intelligence. &#8220;We equate our big brain with intelligence. Over the years we have looked at these kinds of things and said the dolphins must be intelligent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The real flaw in this logic is that it suggests all brains are built the same&#8230; When you look at the structure of the dolphin brain, you see it is not built for complex information processing,&#8221; he said. A neuroethologist who looks at brain evolution, Manger&#8217;s views are sure to cause a stir among a public which has long associated dolphins with intelligence, emotion and other human-like qualities. &#8220;You put an animal in a box, even a lab rat or gerbil, and the first thing it wants to do is climb out of it. If you don&#8217;t put a lid on top of the bowl a goldfish it will eventually jump out to enlarge the environment it is living in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But a dolphin will never do that. In the marine parks, the dividers to keep the dolphins apart are only a foot or two above the water between the different pools,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>english.aljazeera.net JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, August 18, 2006: Dolphins may have big brains, but a South African-based scientist says laboratory rats,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}