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Hmmh, but a whale's sensori-motor skills are quite rudimentary compared to a human's. A human can manipulate objects, walk, run, dance, swim, jump. A whale can
by jkuria 7y ago
Hmmh, but a whale's sensori-motor skills are quite rudimentary compared to a human's. A human can manipulate objects, walk, run, dance, swim, jump. A whale can only swim and maybe do a fairly restricted set of dives?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoHave a look at dolphins playing with bubble rings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE - and making labyrinths out of suspended mud to catch fish with - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfqPQm-ThU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfqPQm-ThU
- jkuria 7y agoWe are talking about Whales not dolphins. Dolphins have always been the subject of researches for their higher than average intelligence.
- anfilt 7y agoDon't forget that pretty much every part of your's and a whales body has nerves in it to detect pain & contract muscles. More body mass means more nerves that need to send and receive information from the central nervous system. So even assuming a constant amount nerve endings in cm^3 of flesh between whales and humans a whale will have significantly more.
- goatinaboat 7y agoWhales can do the DSP for sonar, humans can’t.
- anfilt 7y agothere are blind people who can use essentially echo location to get an idea of their surroundings.