Whales and dolphins have rich 'human-like' societies where they call each other by name

[Disir]

Whales and dolphins live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, and talk to each other - much like human societies, new research has revealed.

These intelligent creatures are even more sophisticated than we thought and have regional group dialects, look after friends' children and teach each other how to use tools, the study found.

Researchers found dolphins sometimes use a call associated with an individual when they're not there - suggesting they gossip about each other too.

However, unfortunately for them they don't have opposable thumbs so they will never be able to mimic our great metropolises and technologies, researchers said.


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Again. The only thing holding back whales, dolphins and cats from ruling the world is opposable thumbs.

 

[JoeMoma]

Could be a new market for prosthetic limbs.