Wake Up With A "Did You Know?": Dolphins Have Bigger Brains Than Humans

So I watched “The Cove” last night. It’s a documentary about dolphins. I thought it would be a nice light documentary to fall asleep to last night about dolphins and how sweet they are. Like a super specialized version of Planet Earth. WRONG. It was horrifying. I will put the trailer at the bottom of this blog. I didn’t know what I was getting into, but now I am a HUGE dolphin guy because they are so sweet. That clip from the Simpsons where the Dolphins invade and take over Springfield works because if dolphins had evolved things like arms, legs, and thumbs, they probably would’ve destroyed humans already. Look at their brains

Our little pea brain is on the left and their super powerful genius brain is on the right. I don’t know how brains work, but scientists say that the dolphin brain is the second most complex brain on the planet. Second only to us. Dolphin brains are structurally the same as ours as well with the dual hemispheres and they behave in similar fashions.

Dolphins have their own language where they use those weird whistles, clicks, and squeaks that everyone is familiar with, BUT…they also are the only species besides humans to give each other names. Dolphins have unique whistles for every dolphin in the pod and they can always recognize their own. That’s pretty fucking wild especially since some dolphin pods can be up to 1000 different dolphins. Dolphins are highly social. They have sex for pleasure and make friends inside of their pod. If you’re a dolphin swimming in a pod of 1000 then there’s going to be some assholes in the pod. That’s the way it is. Dolphins have their own social cliques just like humans.

Humans have known that dolphins were SWEET for a long time. In ancient Greece if you killed a dolphin it was a crime punishable by death. They called dolphins “hieros ichthys” which translates to “sacred fish”. Not a fish, but pretty close. Moral of the story, don’t fucking kill dolphins