Words Worth Noting - May 18, 2022

“University of Hawaii researcher Lou Herman ‘has proved that dolphins are capable of complex problem solving, demonstrating prodigious feats of learning, memory and creativity,’ reports Reader’s Digest. ‘One well-known anecdote involves a clever aquarium dolphin who was rewarded by his trainers for retrieving one piece of garbage after another. It turns out that, in order to maximize his fishy rewards, the dolphin had stashed an entire newspaper at the bottom of the tank and was tearing off one small piece at a time.’”

“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 12, 2012