Exploring the Cognitive World of the Bottlenosed Dolphin Export

@inbook{citeulike:410950, abstract = {An exceptionally large brain, a high degree of sociability, and easy trainability mark the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) as a compelling species for study of its intellectual processes and potential. Accordingly, our long-term research program into dolphin cognition, now spanning some 30 years, with as many as 22 years of study of individual animals, has been directed toward the description and analysis of these processes and potential. The philosophy guiding this approach is that the intellectual potential of a long-lived, presumptively intelligent species, like the dolphin, is best revealed within a long-term program of intensive, special education, within a culture that values education. As these conditions surely favor the emergence of the full flower of human intellect, can comparable conditions also reveal the intellectual potential of other targeted species? To this end, we have worked intensively with different individual animals, using a broad-brush multi-level approach that includes studies of sensory processes, cognitive characteristics, and communication. These different areas of study have increased our understanding of the perceptual, cognitive, and social worlds of the dolphin.}, author = {Herman, Louis M.}, booktitle = {The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition}, citeulike-article-id = {410950}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/TheCognitiveAnimal/Ch/Herman/herman-final.pdf}, editor = {Marc}, keywords = {animal, cognition, dolphins}, posted-at = {2005-11-29 01:09:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Exploring the Cognitive World of the Bottlenosed Dolphin}, url = {http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/TheCognitiveAnimal/Ch/Herman/herman-final.pdf}, year = {2002} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:410950 L3 - citeulike-article-id:410950 N2 - An exceptionally large brain, a high degree of sociability, and easy trainability mark the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) as a compelling species for study of its intellectual processes and potential. Accordingly, our long-term research program into dolphin cognition, now spanning some 30 years, with as many as 22 years of study of individual animals, has been directed toward the description and analysis of these processes and potential. The philosophy guiding this approach is that the intellectual potential of a long-lived, presumptively intelligent species, like the dolphin, is best revealed within a long-term program of intensive, special education, within a culture that values education. As these conditions surely favor the emergence of the full flower of human intellect, can comparable conditions also reveal the intellectual potential of other targeted species? To this end, we have worked intensively with different individual animals, using a broad-brush multi-level approach that includes studies of sensory processes, cognitive characteristics, and communication. These different areas of study have increased our understanding of the perceptual, cognitive, and social worlds of the dolphin. TI - Exploring the Cognitive World of the Bottlenosed Dolphin T2 - The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition KW - animal KW - cognition KW - dolphins AU - Herman, Louis A2 - Marc PY - 2002/// UR - http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/TheCognitiveAnimal/Ch/Herman/herman-final.pdf ER -