Dolphin Saves the Whales 海豚救鲸
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 星期六， 2008年3月15号
While I’m on the subject of life-saving miracles, the BBC reported this week that it’s not just humans who take an interest in whale conservation.虽然我对这个问题的拯救生命的奇迹， 英国广播公司报道说，这个星期的不只是人类谁关心鲸鱼保护。 A bottlenose dolphin, known in her local neighbourhood as Moko , is taking it as seriously as any dolphin can.甲宽吻海豚，在她知道当地居民区作为Moko ，是把它作为认真任何海豚可以。
Mr Smith and his team of humans were getting nowhere fast in their attempt to save a pair of beached whales from the north east coast of New Zealand.史密斯先生和他的团队的人越来越无处快速企图拯救搁浅鲸鱼对来自北方的东海岸的新西兰。 Moko sped to the rescue just in time (maybe in a waterproof cape), uttered a few carefully chosen instructions to the whales (maybe in a Whalish accent), and they made it safely home in time for tea (or maybe a krill tisane). Moko赶赴救援的正是时候（也许在防水角） ，说出一些精心挑选的指示鲸（也许在Whalish口音） ，他们使家中安全的时候了茶（或可能是磷虾tisane ） 。
“I don’t speak whale and I don’t speak dolphin,” Mr Smith told the BBC, “but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea.” “我不会说鲸鱼和我不会说海豚， ”史密斯先生接受BBC采访时说， “但很明显的东西了，因为这两个鲸改变他们的态度从相当不安地以下的海豚很愿意和直接沿海滩和连续出海。 “
He added: “The dolphin did what we had failed to do.他说： “海豚做了什么，我们没有这样做。 It was all over in a matter of minutes.” [ original article ]这是所有在几分钟内。 “ [ 原件文章 ]
Tales of dolphins saving humans go back to ancient Greece.海豚的故事拯救人类回到古希腊。 It was Plutarch, the Greek moralist and biographer, who said, “To the dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.” [ source ]据普鲁塔克，希腊道德和传记作家，谁说： “为了海豚，就有超过所有其他，大自然给予什么是最好的哲学家寻求：友谊没有优势。 ” [ 来源 ]
The best-known dolphin legends feature them forming a ring to protect surfers from sharks, or guiding stray swimmers back to shore.最有名的海豚传说功能他们形成一个环，以保护用户由鲨鱼，或指导杂散游泳回到岸上。 Incredibly dolphins extend their instinct for self-preservation to just about any species (except sharks), and seem to employ it with effortless brilliance.令人难以置信的海豚延长其本能的自我保护到的任何物种（除鲨鱼） ，而且似乎雇用与轻松辉煌。
Is it intelligence or just a natural benevolence?难道情报或者只是一种自然善？ According to Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , they are much wiser than we are… but then he also insisted mice are secretly ruling the world.据道格拉斯亚当斯在他的漫游指南银河 ，他们比我们更聪明的...但他还坚持认为老鼠秘密统治世界。 Even when I was hooked on the series at age 10, I wasn’t entirely convinced by that.甚至当我迷上了一系列在10岁时，我并不完全相信这一点。 Let’s see what the Ultimate Guide to Dolphins has to say instead:让我们看看什么终极指南海豚已经不是说：
Dolphins have large brains for their bodies — in fact, a bottlenose dolphin is second only to humans in the ratio of brain size to body size.海豚的大脑有很大的机构-事实上，宽吻海豚是仅次于人类大脑的比例大小的体型。 Researchers have also pointed to the parallels in the organization of dolphin and primate brains as more evidence of high intelligence in dolphins.研究人员还指出，类似的组织海豚和灵长类动物的大脑随着越来越多的证据表明高智能的海豚。 Some have gone so far as to suggest that dolphins actually have a language that humans simply cannot comprehend.有些人甚至认为，海豚的语言实际上，人类根本无法理解。
But others say that in our enthusiasm to anthropomorphize dolphins, we give them powers they just don’t possess.但也有人说，在我们的热情，以人格化海豚，我们给他们权力，他们只是不具备。 A closer look suggests that much of the dolphin’s large brain is taken up with echolocation and handling acoustical information — processes at which they excel.仔细研究表明，大部分的海豚的大脑是采取大与声学回声定位和处理信息-进程，他们的Excel 。 But dolphins tend to rank at about the level of elephants in “intelligence” tests and haven’t shown any unusual talent at problem solving.但是海豚往往排名在大象水平的“智能性”试验，并没有表现出任何不寻常的人才，解决问题。
So what is that unique quality that fascinates and charms us, if we cannot truly call it intelligence?什么是质量，独特的魅力着迷和我们，如果我们不能真正称之为情报？ In his book The Animal Kingdom , Sri Chinmoy calls it sagacity.在他的书中动物王国 ， 斯里兰卡清称之为远见卓识。
Dolphin : Sagacity 海豚：远见卓识
Dolphin, my dolphin,海豚，我的海豚，
Your advanced sagacity您的先进的远见卓识
Denies your inferiority否认你的自卑感
To forest animals.森林动物。
You make man feel that your consciousness你让他觉得你的意识
Borders upon the extremity of human life边界的肢体的人的生命
With ceaseless strife.随着不断的纷争。—Sri Chinmoy ，斯里兰卡清
From The Animal Kingdom从动物王国
sagacity (su’gasitee) 远见卓识 （ su'gasitee ）
1. 1 。 [n] the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [ ñ ]性状形成的意见和评价的区别
2. 2 。 [n] the ability to make good judgments的[ ]的能力，取得良好的判断
The names of the two saved whales are not known, and Moko’s instructions have not been translated, but whatever she said, it seemed to the whales a very good judgment indeed.的名字，这两个储存鲸不知道，和Moko的指示，没有翻译，但无论她说，它似乎是一个非常好的头鲸的判决确实。
