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Dolphin Intelligence Explained
Source: Discovery News - By Jennifer Viegas
If human standards for intelligence are applied to non-human animals, however, dolphins come very close to our own brain aptitude levels, suggests Emory University dolphin expert Lori Marino. She's performed MRI scans of dolphin brains. The scans prove dolphin brains are:
* Big, relative to body size * Intricate, with a neocortex "more highly convoluted than our own" * Structured to allow for self-awareness and the processing of what Marino calls "complex emotions" All animals share the capacity for emotions, she explained, but the part of the dolphin brain associated with processing emotional information is particularly expanded. |
Asia's greed for ivory puts African elephant at risk
Source: Guardian By: Robin McKie
There has been a massive surge in illegal ivory trading, researchers warned last week. They have found that more than 14,000 products made from the tusks and other body parts of elephants were seized in 2009, an increase of more than 2,000 on their previous analysis in 2007.
Details of this disturbing rise have been revealed on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the world ivory trading ban. Implemented on 18 January 1990, it was at first credited with halting the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of elephants.
But the recent growth in the far east's appetite for ivory – a status symbol for the middle classes of the region's newly industrialised economies – has sent ivory prices soaring from £150 a kilogram in 2004 to more than £4,000.....
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