Diving into dolphin heads: science, rights and ethics
Diving into the dolphin brain
View the image galleryThe Cove took out this year's Oscar for best documentary for its confronting coverage of the annual dolphin culls in Taiji, Japan. Scientists argue dolphins have complex, large brains - second only to human brains relative to body weight. Join Natasha Mitchell with leading cetacean scientists and an ethicist for a tour of a waterborne 'alien intelligence'. What are the consequences for captivity, and a controversial call for 'personhood' status?
Guests
Associate Professor Jacopo Annese
Founder and director
The Brain Observatory
University of San Diego
California
USA
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/Professor Thomas I. White
Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Business Ethics
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles
USA
http://cba.lmu.edu/facultyresearch/facultylist/white.htmProfessor Diana Reiss
Professor of Psychology and Biopsychology, and Behavioural Neuroscience
Hunter College
City University of New York
USA
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/02_Faculty/FacultyPages/Faculty_Reiss.htmlDr Lori Marino
Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology
Faculty affiliate with the Centre for Ethics
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.nbb.emory.edu/faculty/personal/marino.htmlFurther Information
All in the Mind blog with presenter Natasha Mitchell
Join Natasha Mitchell in the All in the Mind blog. You can add comments there, or directly here on the webpage too (It's easy! Just look for Add Your Comment).2010 AAAS Conference - Intelligence of Dolphins: Ethical and Policy Implications session
February, 2010.The Brain Observatory, University of California San Diego
Dolphins: the Philosophical Questions
PDF of a chapter from Thomas I. White's book, In Defense of Dolphins.The Cove
Oscar Winning documentary on the dolphin drives in JapanReview of The Cove - Oscar Winning documentary
The Movie Show, ABC Radio National
Review by Ruth Hessey, 2009In Defense of Dolphins
Accompanies the book of the same name by Thomas I WhitePublications
Title: Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence
Author: Diana Reiss and Lori Marino
Publisher: The National Academy of Sciences, 2001
URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5937.abstractTitle: In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier
Author: Thomas I. White
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing 2007
ISBN: 9781405157780Title: Japan's dolphin drive hunts from a scientific and animal welfare perspective
Author: Diana Reiss
URL: http://www.whales-online.org/doc_bin/reiss_marino_drivehunts_2007.doc
Originally published by The Ocean Project at http://www.theoceanproject.org/actfordolphins/scivi.htmlTitle: Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and Production by Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Evidence for Vocal Learning
Author: Reiss D, McCowan B
Publisher: Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1993 Sep;107(3):301-12
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8375147Title: Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition
Author: Lori Marino, Richard C. Connor, R. Ewan Fordyce, Louis M. Herman, Patrick R. Hof, Louis Lefebvre, David Lusseau, Brenda McCowan, Esther A. Nimchinsky, Adam A. Pack, Luke Rendell, Joy S. Reidenberg, Diana Reiss, Mark D. Uhen, Estel Van der Gucht, Hal Whitehead
Publisher: PLoS Biol 5(5): e139, 2007
URL: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139Title: Cortical Complexity in Cetacean Brains
Author: Patrick R. Hof, Rebecca Chanis, Lori Marino
Publisher: The Anatonomical Record, Volume 287A Issue 1, Pages 1142 - 1152, 2006
URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112098743/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0Title: Neuroanatomy of the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) from Magnetic Resonance Images
Author: Marino Lori, Sherwood Chet C, Delman Bradley N, Tang Cheuk Y, Taidich Thomas P, Hof Patrick R
Publisher: The Anatomical Record, 2004, vol. 281A, no2, pp. 1256-1263
URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16345569Title: Convergence of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Cetaceans and Primates
Author: Marino Lori
Publisher: Brain behavior and evolution 2002, vol. 59, no1-2, pp. 21-32
URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13773972Title: Dolphin-Assisted Therapy: More Flawed Data and More Flawed Conclusions
Author: Lori Marino, and Scott O Lilienfeld
Publisher: Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, Volume 20, Number 3, September 2007 , pp. 239-249(11)
URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/anthroz/2007/00000020/00000003/art00003Title: Origin and Evolution of Large Brains in Toothed Whales
Author: L Marino, D.W McShea, M.D Uhen
Publisher: 2004, vol. 281A, no2, pp. 1247-1255
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15497142Title: Whistles with Dolphins
Author: Frederik Joelving
Publisher: Scientific American January 26, 2009
URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whistles-with-dolphinsPresenter
Natasha Mitchell
Offering multiple perspectives from many fields of human inquiry that may move all of us toward a more integrated understanding of who we are as conscious beings.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
All in the Mind - Diving into dolphin heads: science, rights and ethics
Excellent episode. More here, including a video.
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