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John Potter: It sometimes amazes me that the only language which has been extensively taught to dolphins is a version of American Sign Language, which, of course, you use your hands, so you have all these wonderful signals, and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins. And this somehow kind of misses the point because dolphins don't have hands, so this is inherently a very one-way process. And it's this anthropomorphic, "We have something to teach them or control them," and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.


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that the only language
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which has been extensively taught to dolphins
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is a version of American Sign Language,
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which, of course, you use your hands,
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so you have all these wonderful signals,
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and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins.
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And this somehow kind of misses the point
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because dolphins don't have hands,
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so this is inherently a very one-way process.
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And it's this anthropomorphic
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"We have something to teach them or control them,"
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and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.
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It's not about intelligence.
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It's about consciousness.
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They are self-aware, like humans are self-aware.
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That means that we look in the mirror,
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and we know exactly what we're looking at.
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I don't believe that the fishermen here are aware of that.
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When they're in that killing cove
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and their babies are being slaughtered in front of them,
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they're aware of that.
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They can anticipate what's going to happen to them.
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It's an eerie sound, isn't it?
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The dolphins we're hearing now are all dead.
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Tomorrow there will be another group replacing them.

Clip duration: 99 seconds
Views: 184
Timestamp in movie: 00h 59m 53s
Uploaded: 22 October, 2021
Genres: documentary, biography, crime
Summary: Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.


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