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Nov 21, 2024 03:56PM
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I suspect a lot of animal communication may be telepathic. I spend much time kayaking in beautiful waters near my home in the Bay of Islands in Northland New Zealand.Now and again I have dolphins around my boat. I meet them face-to-face.
Scientists have analyzed the brains of dolphins and discovered there are zones in the dolphin brain which have no equivalent in the human brain. Science has no way of knowing what these zones may be for.
My experiences with dolphins lead me to suspect they could be for telepathic communication.
if you look at this video I filmed one day, it might help you understand. The dolphins in this video had towed us, in their slipstream for miles and miles eastwards for almost the entire length of Te Rawhiti Inlet, but when we approached this shallow reef and I became nervous about getting across it safely in my very lightly constructed kayak, something extraordinary happened and I filmed it in this 3 minute video:
https://youtu.be/Pb9z1YNDF10
And as for
why
animals talk, there are doubtless as many or more reasons as humans have for talking. I spend hours and hours dreaming up the conversations between dolphins I meet in our local waters. Also between the whales and orca I've met in the deep ocean way back in my younger ocean sailing days.
Another example of animal conversation, probably this time existing only in my imagination, happened in this video, where I paddled alongside a fever of eagle rays, the entire length of the beach. I imagined a conversation like this:Eagle Ray Freddie:
Hey you guys, there's a human following us in a bright yellow plastic boat. Should we be worried?
Eagle Ray Susie:
Relax Freddy, you don't have to worry about her. It's just that same old woman who's always following us around in her little yellow boat. She never does us any harm.
Here's my video of that day and you need to turn the sound up for this one:
https://youtu.be/MrA3u6fqGQk
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Becky wrote: "Beautiful videos, Tui - thank you for sharing!"My pleasure. I'm lucky to live among such wildlife.
