languages, but there s every indication that they use languages. the orca brain just screams out intelligence, awareness. we took this tremendous brain and put it in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. what we found was just astounding. they ve got a part of the brain that humans don t have. a part of their brain has extended out right adjacent to their limbic system. the system processes emotions. the safest inference would be these are animals that have highly elaborated emotional lives. it s becoming clear that dolphins and whales have a sense of self, a sense of social bonding that they ve taken to another level, much stronger and much more complex than in other mammals including humans. we look at mass strandings, the fact that they stand by each other.
we took this tremendous brain and we put it in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. what we found was just astounding. they have a part of the brain that humans don t have. a part of their brain has extended out right adjacent to their lymbic system. the system that processes emotions. the safest inference would be these are animals that highly elaborate emotional lives. it is becoming true that dolphins and whales have a sense of self, a sense of social bonding that they have taken to another level, much stronger and much more complex than other mammals, including humans. we look at the fact that they stand by each other. everything about them is social. everything. it has been suggested that their whole sense of self is distributed among the