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I wonder what caused dolphins to evolve their intelligence. I don't think they hunted underwater mammoths :)
by ajuc 6y ago
I wonder what caused dolphins to evolve their intelligence. I don't think they hunted underwater mammoths :)
- yellowapple 6y agoI mean, could they have? "Mammoths" in this case could be whales, sharks, and other large aquatic creatures. Considering the relative lack of deep sea archaeology going on, there could be an abundance of evidence of this that we simply haven't noticed. Plus, there's even extant examples of dolphins hunting sharks (and even knowing to flip them over to render them helpless).
- T-A 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Mammals_and_birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Mammals_and_birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Intelligence