Re: norway starts hunting min

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From: Marvin Minsky
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:08

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In article <92Dec23.174104.27846@acs.ucalgary.ca> edstrom@hsc.ucalgary.ca (John Edstrom) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.4259.6389@dosgate> "andrew comello" <andrew.comello@canrem.com> writes:
>>Newsgroup: sci.bio
>>Subject: Norway starts hunting minke whales

>>In my own opinion, I feel that if you placed all of the animals and
>>organisms of the earth on an IQ scale, the cetaceans would run a close
>>second to man... Since they have the greatest IQ besides man, It would
>>be MORALLY unjust to kill them....
...
>Really?  This sounds contentious.  I would have nominated the
>chimpanzee as the runner up.  I'm not an expert but my impression is
>that the chimp's intelligence has been underestimated and research
>keeps revealing unsuspected abilities and complexities.

I have the impression that elephants are very smart -- never mind
"IQ".  Does anyone know how they compare to whales and chimps?

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