TEDxAsheville - Dee Eggers - Dolphins as Persons

UNC-Asheville professor, Dee Eggers discusses dolphins as persons and ideas for protecting them and other species that face extinction.

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Science & Technology

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• TED
• Asheville
• TEDx
• TEDxAsheville
• Dolphins
• Personhood
• Persons
• Extinction
• Environment
• Biochar
• Micro Algae
• Autism
• Dee Eggers
• animal
• rights

[RingneckDoveFan]

Well if you count dolphins as persons, you better believe whales and porpoises are persons as well. If cetaceans are persons, then so are parrots, crows, elephants, and primates - as well as other complex animals I am forgetting.

[RingneckDoveFan]

@124yuppers

Dogs aren't self aware.

[FreedomCookiex]

great video!

[RingneckDoveFan]

@ultimera1 As much as we all would love to believe dogs are self aware, researchers believe that because of their severely underdeveloped neocortex, that this is very unlikely.

The only animals that have passed the mirror test are 3 kinds of gibbons, bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and then other than primates; bottlenose dolphins, orcas, elephants, and European magpies. No dogs.

[124yuppers]

@ultimera1 I have never heard that, reacting to a mirror is different from being self-aware. Could you possibly send me a link to where you got this info?

[ultimera1]

Crows, Ravens and parrots are self aware as well as the ones mentioned

[ultimera1]

Dolphins are amazing! No doubt about that.

[ultimera1]

@RingneckDoveFan , Dogs are most likely to be self aware to some extent.

[davidwilmothall]

My dolphin lied

[rodngun762]

moronic talk

[124yuppers]

@RingneckDoveFan So....should I assume you don't know of any credited magpie research?

[RingneckDoveFan]

@124yuppers Link? Ever heard of this thing called "Google." It's a search engine. Use it.