In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier

"Interesting readings raised several important questions about how we view other species. [A] A thoughtable book" (Animal welfare, May 2008)

"White is an outstanding, well-published philosopher, his writing is very clear, and it is easy to read after careful reasoning Summary: Strongly recommended" (selection)

"I am thinking ... It's easy to read and well laid out ... (White) is casting some important questions about how to observe other species." (University Animal Welfare Association)

"Tom White's book is an excellent intellectual achievement, a combination of scientific evidence and acute ethical analysis, which is a pioneering contribution to the zoology literature."

Thomas White made research and brought evidence of the psychological complexity of dolphins to his readers in a persuasive way. They disputed the captivity and imprisonment during the development of dolphins all over the world, and they challenged us. Everyone, please reconsider how much these creatures are wet. This wonderful and important book can not be better. "

"In the protection of dolphins, we need to understand the current state of dolphin ethics and treatment under various conditions, Dr. White recalls the current research and reinserts the therapeutic problems surrounding the dolphin and human activities I think that we should analyze and review it.The treatment of the world and its inhabitants is to explore the problems surrounding other clever species widely. "

"Alpha intelligence" or "other than human", or ...? After reading this new insightful and thought-provoking book, you will never think about dolphins. "

This book was in the urgent need of production, but now it can just be written just what is right. Professor Chua did a modern scientific research very carefully and painstakingly and used it to solve important problems that made dolphin kend "moral stand" or "right". Hiscase is convincing and this book systematically strengthens information and serves as an important document for preprocessing dolphins. It is an important insight into dolphin intelligence and behavior, very readable and rich. "

Dolphins are proven to be clever animals. As Discovery News reported, the dolphin's brain is made for consciousness and emotion. Indeed, the dolphin's brain is structurally more complex than humans. As Emory University's dolphin expert Lori Marino told Discovery News, "If human intelligence standards are also applied to animals other than humans, dolphins are very close to our own brain capabilities "Although it is a bad reputation, they are very intelligent creatures. As researchers at the University of Guelph, Ontario point out, "Although mice may not use strategies observed by human subjects to deal with cognitive tasks, they often do so in their own way Succeed: Use the loopholes of the program and confuse the ignored variables, a human test designer. "

The ability of dolphins to invent new behavior was tested in the famous dolphin expert Karen Pryor's famous experiment. Whenever they come up with new actions, two coarse tooth dolphins will be rewarded. Two dolphins only need a few trials to achieve what they need. Similar experiments were established for humans. It took a long time for humans to understand what they were trained to do what they did like dolphins. For dolphins and humans there is a series of recessions before they are 'popular' (even human beings get angry). Once they thought, humans expressed great consolation, the dolphins were excited and running around the tank, showing increasingly new behavior.

Last August, male Bottlenose dolphins were swimming in the branch of the Raritan River in New Jersey. For him, this is a rare place. Bottle dolphins are salty creatures and as long as they are old and not sick, they usually avoid rivers like dolphins. It was impossible for wildlife rescuers to save dolphins after trying to bring him back to the sea. He did not expand pain, but he euthanized him. There, the sad story may have ended, but one reporter wondered why the dolphins were dead. She submitted a public record request for the autopsy results. The Department of Agriculture of New Jersey refused to share them for dolphin's medical privacy reasons. This is very strange. Many people think that animals are human - unlike us, though inevitable but clearly there is thought and emotion - but government agencies have not officially recognized personality other than Homo sapiens