I went out to dinner with two of my friends, Elisa Southard, (author of “Break Through the Noise“) and Barbara Santos, (author of “Practice Aloha: Secrets to Living Life Hawaiian Style” ). We had a grand old time.
We were celebrating Barbara’s birthday, (Happy Birthday Barb!), and Elisa asked us if we had seen the video of these people who work with the Great Whale Conservatory, saving a whale, and she emailed it to us. I got a kick out of the fact that as we were talking, Elisa could get on her Android phone and email us a link, and look things up, like books we were discussing and other things in conversation. This is how modern life has evolved with technology today.
The video is amazing and I just had to share it with you. It made me cry when they cut the humpback whale free from all these yards of netting it had gotten terribly tangled in and the whale was near death. It seemed to know they were helping it, and once free it put on a heck of show for them which seemed like a thank you to me and to them.
This made me wonder, do whales have higher intelligence? I googled the question and found this:
“Whales boast the brain cells that ‘make us human”
Whales may share our kind of intelligence, researchers say after discovering brain cells previously found only in humans and other primates.
They were touted as the brain cells that set humans and the other great apes apart from all other mammals. Now it has been discovered that some whales also have spindle neurons – specialised brain cells that are involved in processing emotions and helping us interact socially.
Spindle cells, named after their long, spindle-shaped bodies, are the cells that are credited with allowing us to feel love and to suffer emotionally. Their discovery in whales will stimulate debate both on the level of whale intelligence and on the ethics of hunting them.
The cells occur in parts of the human brain that are thought to be responsible for our social organisation, empathy, speech, intuition about the feelings of others, and rapid “gut” reactions.
Click here to read full article from NEW SCIENTIST
Amazing stuff! Watch the video below.