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#1 2004-11-23 09:38:17
- Palomar
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Re: Dolphins Protect Swimmers - ...from shark attack
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … s_dc]Click
*Have heard occasional stories like this one. :up: Occurred in New Zealand.
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#2 2004-11-23 09:51:11
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I've read stories about dolphins momentarily 'freezing' sharks when they come too near their young. Dolphins may very well be the highest evolutionary being on the planet.
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#3 2004-11-23 10:00:21
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Dolphins may very well be the highest evolutionary being on the planet.
What a difference a set of grasping appendages makes.
Thumbs up to those dolphins though. :up: 
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#4 2004-11-23 11:23:18
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I think I will eat some tuna in their honor. :laugh:
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#5 2004-11-27 08:18:08
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Yup! I'm a hardline dolphin fan. 
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#6 2004-11-27 18:45:45
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Good dolphins. Natural instinct or not it kind of shows what species is mans best friend in the water. I happen to live on the coast near a dolphin pod and they show extreme intelligence to the point my goverment have announced their protected status.
But like all animals with high intelligence we find uses for them even if it as suicidal mine delivery systems.
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#7 2004-11-27 19:22:34
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*I've read some of Dr. John C. Lilly's work with dolphins in the 1950s - 1970s. Very interesting stuff. I've never seen one in the wild; I'm not even sure I've seen one in an aquarium (though that seems impossible...perhaps I have seen one or a couple at some venue).
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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#8 2004-11-28 19:18:46
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I wonder if you hooked a brain wave interface up to them if they could be taught to play computer games.
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#9 2004-11-28 19:32:58
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Dolphins may very well be the highest evolutionary being on the planet.
*That wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I wish I could recall more of Dr. Lilly's work with dolphins. Hollywood actor Burgess Meredith became involved with Lilly's work.
http://deoxy.org/lilly.htm]One link to Lilly (Some of his stuff is very "far out", so be warned -- I'm not kidding)
http://www.johnclilly.com/]Another link And so on...can, of course, find more stuff via Google name search.
Not to get too far off topic, but Lilly also pioneered research in sensory deprivation tanks. IIRC, his first experience included two or three dolphins in a tank beneath the SDT he was in (one of the experiments did for certain; I just can't recall if indeed it was the very first one). He also -- with Federal Gov't approval and Federal funding -- obtained Sandoz LSD and indeed ingested LSD during that first sensory deprivation tank experiment (and subsequent experiments as well; not sure how many "trips" in total he took). Of course this was *before* LSD was outlawed as dangerous by the Fed Gov't -- which then halted the experiments, funding and supply. This is also part of the reason you'll see Dr. Timothy Leary's name mentioned with his. (However, Dr. Lilly continued mind-altering experiments in privately built sensory deprivation tanks after ingesting ketamine, even into his old age).
Have read his autobiographical work The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography, and also The Center of the Cyclone, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer (a very tough read) and Simulations of God (another tough read...sometimes I think he's not even speaking English anymore!).
He especially discusses his work with dolphins indepth in his autobiography. And some of his stuff is, again, "far out" -- but fascinating.
--Cindy
P.S.: Perhaps is unnecessary, but I suppose just to be on the safe side I'd better flat-out state that no, I don't approve of the use of LSD or any illicit and dangerous substances! There. 
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#10 2004-11-29 02:47:29
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I heard yesterday that the Dolphins involved in protecting these swimmers were caught and killed by poachers shortly after the incindent - not sure if its true, but I wouldn't put it past people like that.
Graeme
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