Re:Dolphins' elaborate octopus-hunting strategy
by pvaldes on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:31PM
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It depends on what do you interpret as ethics in any case. We fall often on the trap of those rubber abstract concepts. Dolphin can not read an ethics treatise obviously, but show lots of examples of what most people would call "ethical behaviour":
Cooperative hunting, altruism, care for the members of the group, and colective child care are normal.
Innate interest and sense of compassion for other marine mammals in distress, including humans, and a strong protection response in dangerous situations.
They have grandparents. This is particularly remarkable. Old specimens past their reproductive days are treated as expendable and die quickly in 99% of the animal species. Grandma's are instead VID (very important dolphins) in its societies, and live much longer than expected.
Cooperative hunting, altruism, care for the members of the group, and colective child care are normal.
Innate interest and sense of compassion for other marine mammals in distress, including humans, and a strong protection response in dangerous situations.
They have grandparents. This is particularly remarkable. Old specimens past their reproductive days are treated as expendable and die quickly in 99% of the animal species. Grandma's are instead VID (very important dolphins) in its societies, and live much longer than expected.
Mourning was also reported in some cases.