DOLPHINS

Dolphins have become a popular attraction at zoos in recent years. They are more interesting than lions, tigers, giraffes and seals because they are livelier and perform tricks, like circus animals. But although they are more willing to cooperate with the trainer than other animals in capacity, they get bored if they are asked to do the same trick twice. This is one reason for believing that they are very intelligent.

Dolphins are regarded as the friendliest creatures in the sea and stories of them helping drowning sailors have been common since Roman times.

We realize that they are better organised and their society is more complex than people believe. They look after other dolphins when they are ill, they care for pregnant mothers and protect the weakest in the community, as we do.

Some scientists have said that dolphins have a language, they communicate with each other with a non-verbal system of communication.

These animals are mammals as us, and they are intelligent too, but they are better adapted to their environment than we are and they find food more easily.