well the bottlenose ones can, but then it’s more like the death by bunga bunga version of the shocker.
that would make for some really sicko porn by the way. 
[SIZE=“4”]Dolphin Moms Teach Daughters to Use Tools[/SIZE]
James Owen
for National Geographic News
June 7, 2005
"When researchers first saw something strange on the snout of a dolphin in Shark Bay, Western Australia, they thought it was a massive tumor. Now they say it provides the first evidence of a tool-use culture in marine mammals.
The object turned out to be a marine sponge broken off from the seabed. Later other bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay were observed holding sponges over their beaks, and appeared to use them as a fishing tool.
Researchers now report this odd hunting technique originated in a single female and is passed from mother to daughter.
Basing their findings on genetic analysis, the team suggests that this so-called sponging behavior represents the first known example of tool-related culture in cetaceans. Cetaceans are a group of mostly marine animals, including whales and dolphins.
Details of the study were published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The question of whether animals are, like humans, capable of culture has been hotly debated in recent decades. A growing body of research suggests that some animal populations do invent behaviors that are passed to other generations.
Outside humans, the best evidence for culture—defined as distinct and complex behavior originating in local populations and passed on through learning—comes from chimpanzees.
Research published in the journal Nature in 1999 summarized the findings of various long-term field studies, including those of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. The research found significant cultural variations in wild chimp populations, with 39 behavioral patterns peculiar to local groups. Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones…"
for the full article:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0607_050607_dolphin_tools.html
more new of interest…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2168604,00.html
[SIZE=“3”]Dolphins know each others names[/SIZE]
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
Whistles are used for individual recognition
DOLPHINS may be closer to humans than previously realised, with new research showing they communicate by whistling out their own names.
The evidence suggests dolphins share the human ability to recognise themselves and other members of the same species as individuals with separate identities. The research, on wild bottlenose dolphins, will lead to a reassessment of their intelligence and social complexity, raising moral questions over how they should be treated.
The research was carried out by Vincent Janik of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St Andrews University, who has found bottlenose dolphins to be among the animal worlds quickest learners of new sounds.
He said: Each animal develops an individually distinctive signature whistle in the first few months of its life, which appears to be used in individual recognition.
The research has its origin in the 1960s when dolphin trainers first noticed that captive animals each had their own personal repertoire of whistles.
This prompted speculation that dolphins had their own language and might even have individual names. However, the theory was controversial among whale and dolphin researchers, and until now, there had been no means of testing it.
Janiks work was based on a group of dolphins living in Sarasota Bay, Florida, who have been studied for more than 30 years. Over that time researchers have built up a detailed picture of individual dolphins, their family ties and their social interaction.
They have also made extensive recordings of the noises made by individual dolphins and isolated the sounds thought to be their signature whistles or names.
In the study some of the Sarasota Bay animals were corralled in a net. The researchers then played synthetic versions of the signature whistles of other dolphins through underwater loudspeakers to see if they would evoke a response in the captive animals. The use of synthetic whistles ruled out the possibility that the animals might simply be recognising the sound of each others voices.
They found that dolphins responded strongly to the whistles of their relatives and associates while generally ignoring those of dolphins to whom they had no link.
Janik said: Bottlenose dolphins are the only animals other than humans to have been shown to transmit identity information independent of the callers voice.
The findings are supported by other authorities. Denise Herzing, research director at the Wild Dolphin Project at Florida Atlantic University, said it was already clear that many of the 77 known cetacean (whale and dolphin) species had rudimentary languages.
We know that dolphins brains are nearly as large and complex, relative to body size, as those of humans. They have evolved to be intelligent and that implies being able to communicate, she said.
Dolphins may, however, be just the first of many species where individuals are found to have their own names. Other researchers have already found evidence for highly developed language skills in parrots, crows and primates.
Great apes, such as chimpanzees and orang-utans, have been a popular subject for research because they are so closely related to humans.
Their limited vocal apparatus means they cannot speak but researchers at Georgia State University have taught chimpanzees to communicate in English via computers equipped with customised keyboards and voice synthesizers.
The African grey parrot is another renowned linguist, able not only to learn words but to use them in the right context.
Even some rodent species may have developed a rudimentary language. Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University recently found that prairie dogs, a large rodent found in the western United States, shared a language of at least 100 words.
Donald Broom, professor of animal welfare at Cambridge University, said species living in large groups all had advanced communication skills. They have a complex social structure where they have to live with others, negotiate friendships and find mates. If dolphins are using names I expect we will find the same in other species with similar lifestyles.
Actually they had dolphin porno on some special with Robin Williams, and they have sex in like 1/4 of a second or something.
But seriously, how do we know that dolphins aren’t slowly developing undersea technology? Maybe they just don’t have arms and opposable thumbs, so they have a harder time building tools and things like that?
Crows, otters, certain monkeys (there are probably more – I don’t know) have all been observed using rocks and things like tools.
I don’t think we can just assume that since we humans have technology that we are more intelligent than other creatures.
see rest of thread_______^
I’m in a rush today, so I can’t do a background check on this
Anyone know ‘former Shaolin monk’ James Marshall?
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http://thenaturallifestyles.com/faculty/james
Love the testimonials:
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This is genius, now I don’t have to practice cheesy pickup lines.
These things should be taught in schools. 
I don’t date anymore. Go back to my posts from 2004, to about 2006 to see why.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;1155883]Anyone know ‘former Shaolin monk’ James Marshall?[/QUOTE]
The last thing i need is to learn how to attract women. If anything, I need a course to try and repulse them.
I am still, to this day traumatized by that girl who tried to put my soul into one of her China dolls…and that was 6 years ago…we won’t need to mention all the other crazy experiences I have had with women.
I truly understand why some men prefer to go up into the mountains, do nothing but Kung fu and become celibate monks.
Just for the record
James isn’t a member here, is he? Because he kind of sounds like a member. :o
[QUOTE=Royal Dragon;1156052]The last thing i need is to learn how to attract women. If anything, I need a course to try and repulse them.
[/QUOTE]
And why is that? are you brad pitt or something? :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=ShaolinDiva;1156240]And why is that? are you brad pitt or something? :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
You are kind of new here, so your remark can be excused. Lets just say that my escapades with women are legendary on KFM.
i support chan dating, like shi yan ming and his bald korean lesbian woman.
[QUOTE=Royal Dragon;1156052]
I am still, to this day traumatized by that girl who tried to put my soul into one of her China dolls[/QUOTE]
Please elaborate.
[QUOTE=Sardinkahnikov;1156364]Please elaborate. :)[/QUOTE]
I can’t..I am still curled up in fetal position from the whole experience, and the nervous twitch is only just now subsiding. I am still suffering from a perminant dual personality disorder from the whole event…
You are going to have to search my posts from 2004-2006 or 07ish.
Key words would be Debbie, Susan and Doll Chick
Either that, or you can go to the main Kung fu forum and start a thread asking about “Royal Dragon’s women troubles” I am sure all the old timers here would be more than happy to fill you in.
I’m still trying to figure how we went from Marshall to RD
[QUOTE=Royal Dragon;1156411] I am sure all the old timers here would be more than happy to fill you in.[/QUOTE]
No we wouldn’t. Just don’t go there. Some archives threads in this forum are best left alone.
[QUOTE=Royal Dragon;1156411]I can’t..I am still curled up in fetal position from the whole experience, and the nervous twitch is only just now subsiding. I am still suffering from a perminant dual personality disorder from the whole event…
You are going to have to search my posts from 2004-2006 or 07ish.
Key words would be Debbie, Susan and Doll Chick
Either that, or you can go to the main Kung fu forum and start a thread asking about “Royal Dragon’s women troubles” I am sure all the old timers here would be more than happy to fill you in.[/QUOTE]
Found the story. Search-fu ftw.
I have to say, that was something else. I used to date a girl who still kept her barbie dolls well into her mid 20’s, but the “doll chick” debacle is…well, disturbing. I wish you had taken a picture of your face at the moment you found out about her particular breed of insanity.
Also, what happened? Why no more funny dating stories? You could even write a book and title it “Royal Dragon’s Tao of Love”.
if you are too much of a poosy to conquer those wimens, i will do it for you.