Who Are Dolphins?

At the conference The Other Minds Problem: Animal Sentience and Cognition, Dr. Lori Marino gives an overview of current knowledge about who dolphins, whales and porpoises are.

She presents research on cetacean brains, self-awareness (including mirror self-recognition and metacognition), and what these capacities mean for the adaptation of these animals to their natural life in the oceans. She also discusses examples of how cetacean psychology is expressed through family bonds, social complexity and cultural traditions.

The conference was part of the Summer School in Animal Cognition at the University of Quebec at Montreal.