Dolphins, whales and Beluga whales are so smart that they need to adopt the bill of rights. This will refer to them as "non-human race personalities". Such an unusual resolution was passed by the participants of the Vancouver conference, conducted by the American Association for the advancement of science. The document was signed by tens of zoologists and biologists, philosophers and defenders of animal rights. The bill of rights of animals have undertaken to draw up the scholars in Helsinki group, a human rights organization. It includes members of the British society for the protection of whales and dolphins.

According to experts, the Declaration of the rights of cetaceans, in case its construction in the rank of the law, to protect them from keeping in zoos and other attacks by the fishermen. Whalers will equate to the murderers. The organizers of whale Safari will be obliged to observe the rules of respect for the private lives of whales. And oil and construction companies to consider the consequences of their actions for the lives of these creatures.

In the project exotic of the law States: "Each representative of cetaceans has the right to life, and no one has the right to be the owner of these creatures, or to do something that violate their rights, freedoms or the rules".

Whether these animals are so smart that they deserve even its Constitution?

- Of course! - says one of the participants of the conference biology Professor Juan Gonzalo of the research Institute "Tethys" (Italy). "The dolphins are self-aware, because they can recognize themselves in the mirror, feed patients relatives and help fishermen, if they are fed. They even sad about the dead young as people.

Professor Gonzalo observes the bottlenose Dolphin is one of the species of dolphins in the amvrakikos Gulf near the Western coast of Greece. And once drew attention to the mother near dead newborns. She lifted the corpse over the surface in an apparent attempt to force him to breathe.

It was repeated again and again, with a different degree of despair, during the day, " he Gonzalvo. - All this time mother with him did not leave. She made a noise, touching a baby snout and pectoral fins. And left the corpse only when it was finally convinced that the "resurrection" is impossible. The situation looked as if a female understood that death is inevitable, was prepared, but was not able to put up with it.

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Such human behavior recently found an explanation. The dolphins were opened specialized neurons responsible for empathy and intuition.

- Cetaceans are spindle neurons that people linked to a feeling of sorrow, " Dr Ingrid Visser from the research Foundation of killer whales (New Zealand).

To study the brains of these animals, scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to compare it with the brains of primates.

- Dolphin brain more human, and after the second man on the relative mass, given the size of the body, " says zoologist Lori Marino from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. - As it turned out, the bark of the big hemispheres and gamogenetically the cerebral cortex Dolphin-butylboronic so great that allow you to put them on the second place after man.

As a well-known researcher of dolphins Jack of Kassovitz and his wife Donna, the founders of the nonprofit organization Global Heart (World Heart), who is conducting research in the framework of the largest lately project SpeakDolphin - "Talk with Dolphin".

For the first time specialists found these creatures graphical equivalents their words. Kind of hieroglyphs. In fact - writing. Deal with it and going wife of Kassevich, calling on fellow scientists.

- Image Dolphin or letters, or words revealed a unique instrument CymaScope, " explains Jack of Kassovitz. - With the help of a special membrane he can see and transfer to your computer how the allocated frequency - down to the smallest detail - in the sound beam, which emits a Dolphin. In the end, everyone "squeak" appears in the form of pictures - some kind of character. Or "SIMILIA" (CymaGlyph), as they call this circular mark scientists.

It is already clear that the hieroglyphs-simplify different, as our words written on paper. Perhaps the dolphins speak and hear images. If "type" sounds and "read" written. Encrypt in pictures and decode in concepts.

- I have long believed that the brain of a Dolphin handles audio signals in the same way as the human brain - video - says the observations project consultant Dr. horas Dobbs. - Now it is possible to consider that it is proven. Their speech and "looks like" the more sophisticated our.

Moreover, our "brothers" about the same levels of sounds, how much and in humans: six. The sound of a syllable, word, phrase, paragraph, context. People have the meaning arises from the third level, that is, with the word. And the dolphins, it seems that from the first, that is, from a sound, scientists believe. Because each - graphically complex enough to carry the information. Now scientists hope that they will be able to create a visual dictionary of the language of dolphins. And using it, to make the whole phrases, suitable for communication to broadcast transformed into sounds of the picture.

- True, sincere direct talks between us still will not work - sorry Dobbs. Therefore, the mediator / interpreter, translator-synthesizer and the receiver will have a computer. The current is so strong that now could provide a dialogue. It is time for a dictionary.

And then the dolphins themselves and amendments will be made in its Constitution.

Svetlana Kuzina