| Show The Utah Statesman Wednesday March 31 1982 The Outdoor Recreation Committee Presents Joe Wilcox Qunpus clip Jile This week by Waller Cyndi The Author of “White Winds Dolphins are highly intelligent in uhuh The Campus tltpiU is a weekly to student USU member body express opinions ojtht Juionian miles or her choue Cyndi Waller is a graduate student tn the tolumn Ibtr'nott: t nohyciofkis 4 if Ktldkjt biology the opportunity to share with the entire student Hwr your favorite subject what? Ceta-coin my case happens to be cetaceans Say specifically whales dolphins and porpoises Why You can’t take them hunting or have them as pets (unless it is difficult) Well pull up nu live near the coast and even then brew and let this favorite of a chair your grab cup mjv biologist elaborate on the virtues of our long lost aquatic you do when you are given the sun thoughts on anything under wd faculty at USU? Indulge in Saturday April 3 8:00 pm Eccles Conf Center Auditorium Admission $1 00 VSTut y ccta-crjns- ? cousins Expedition which is one of America’s most tragic high altitude mountaineering accidents 1 members of the genera found in the order cetacea be to highly social mammals and sociality can lie very kippcn conducive to survival when there are larger stronger predators cruising your neighborhood who are not adverse to sampling a odbit of your physique for breakfast A social animal needs to be lUe to communicate well in order to survive in a group and the gxciil constraints of a watery environment do not enhance oat's ability to get one's message a c ross unless of course sound ns your primary mcxle of communication as in the cetaceans Most slide presentation about the 1 967 Mt McKinley A of the 2 men in dire circumstances caught in an awesome storm leaving few survivors kinds of voices: one for and one for navigation Dolphins can use both voices at the same time So what! So what? If that didn t this: a imprest you try dolphin’s voice may endow it with a sort of vision" Well not exactly but the dolphin may interpret the information it receives about its environment by utilizing echolocation in a way similar to that which a roentgenologist Most cetaceans have evolved two Bail communication “X-ra- Just a phono call to see uses away Consider for a moment what lour own species Homo this may imply by taking a look sapiens can be a master of disguise hen discerning rmotional states by altering facial expression md other controllable external signals Our automatic functions (which we usually have no control over) such as pulse rate md blood pressure are not available for direct observation considering the fact that dolphins may "hear” the contain of another dolphin the teeth and bones the alimentary onsl and the air cavities of another dolphin I’d like to speculate on the significance of the communication of emotional states in ivprd to the quality of "bluffing” or deceit in their interac-t"- ? (If people could echolocate in a similar fashion imagine hii it would do to our political system) Well enough of idle BUBnK back to the facts So-"bil- VV -- hot mouth watering pizza! Made with our special bland of sauce and natural cheeee and topped with your favorite items! We'd delivery your hot delicioue pizza to your door within thirty e minutes at no additional charge: We're number one in (aat free delivery and Juet a phone cal away Fast Free Delivery 7S3-Q77- ® 1151 N Main ill know the brain-weig- that whales have the largest brains on earth and ratios are comparable to our own in some P'des of cetaceans Now I wouldn’t go so far to say that you mfure intelligence by weight alone but the fact that the extensive development of the cerebral cortex in our own species Brrprded as the morphological feature most clearly related to ffl4D extensive behavioral repertory and intelligence makes the of comparable morphological features in cetaceans But the "quality” of the cetacean brain is not °urs (Had you worried for a minute didn’t I) — may be differences in cellular density and architecture Jut what these differences mean in relation to intelligence still Itaiin to be determined appearance jjwt interesting Wv all boils down to is that not everyone agrees about martcr and so the question is still an open one MvrixraUa nvove n e measure of intelligence thesJ11''1 compounded when trying to make interspecific We can barely justify our measures of cross intelligence quotients within our own species how can uJt dge that gap between orders So why you ques-sna- tt ra'n our drains at all in trying to find out how the arc? I for one feel that by looking at the Caurr relationsh? "rtwrrn animal groups and trying to solve these hddles 'VC U kccr understanding of ourselves as a Pries maybe just maybe if we have a little better tinder 'n °oursclvc we’ll be more capable of shaping our destiny tjgg WC j Off Q Icrrp) pizza 1 2-itc-m S200 off any 16 ormore pizza One coupon per pizza Expires: 415S2 m Faat Tn 7500770 1151 N T Pa-- e 5 |
