Dr. Horace Dobbs, a leading authority on dolphin-assisted therapy, has joined the team as consultant. "I have long held the belief that the dolphin brain, comparable in size with our own, has specialized in processing auditory data in much the same way that the human brain has specialized in processing visual data. Nature tends not to evolve brain mass without a need, so we must ask ourselves what dolphins do with all that brain capacity. The answer appears to lie in the development of brain systems that require huge auditory processing power. There is growing evidence that dolphins can take a sonic 'snap shot' of an object and send it to other dolphins, using sound as the transmission medium. We an therefore hypothesize that the dolphin's primary method of communication is picture based. Thus, the picture-based imaging method, employed by Reid and Kassewitz, seems entirely plausible."

This is utterly amazing. I cannot wait to see how it progresses.

We'll all be dead before we know. I hope the dolphins survive the very near war to end all humans.
We all know we are doomed.

/river newman/

I do not share this knowledge about doom.

Doomed or not--this fascinating...now if we could understand the whale songs....POP

yes, if they do have language, and we could somehow make sense of it, this will be a first encounter with an alien intelligent species.

This is amazing & dovetails nicely with the article I clipped a week or so ago regarding the use of tools by dolphins.