Dolphin talks to humans – but does he love Toughbook or iPad? Dolphins eat fish, kill porpoises for fun, and try, not always successfully, to hide from Japanese fishermen. In their spare time, they hang out at Seaworld and help scientists in their ceaseless quest to talk to animals. And for animals to talk to humans. Take Merlin, aged 2, a dolphin, who is helping researcher Jack …
Talking dolphins is a staple of much science fiction (notably as humanity's second "client" species after chimps in David Brin's excellent Uplift Saga), and I do certainly believe that they are probably extremely intelligent - it would be nice to have another species to actually communicate with on this planet, it might finally rouse humanity out of its superior, consescending, selfish rut and force us to act as a species to be more responsible towards our neighbours.
Merlin
"Stupid humans. Too bad they are so primitive they need computers to talk to us! Oh well, give them a few more thousand millennia and they might become an interesting species, if they don't wipe themselves out first. Oh, and thanks for all the fish. The oil we can do without..."
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