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Dolphins definitely display emotions such as anger, protectiveness, lust, contentment, calm, pain, panic and the entire rest of the emotional spectrum. However, since we can't actually get in the mind of a dolphin, we can only assume whether or not these emotional displays actually are "emotions". I'm not sure what you mean about whether they're instinct or analytical. Do you mean are they able to feel emotions about situations that need to be analyzed first? So even an ant has pain receptors but that pain must be activated by physical contact, but people can also feel pain of, say, seeing their spouse cheating on them. Dolphins definitely seem to be able to display this level of situational awareness, and seem to be able to show jealously and other emotions at social situations.
Or are you asking whether or not they merely feel the emotion or are able to recognize the emotion when the feel it? Again, without being able to communicate with dolphins yet on that level, it's hard to say just how self-aware dolphins are about what they feel.
Or are you trying to draw some line between animalistic instinct and "higher-bred human emotions" like say "love" and "happiness" or "hate"? It's really hard to even attempt to draw a line there. While analysis of situations and recognizing what a situation means for us can definitely bring us emotion, the mechanism of emotion is still the firing and receiving of neural transmitters. Pain from an emotional situation and pain from a physical injury are both equally painful to the brain that has to read and interpret them--the difference is that physical pains also have a physical locus. Furthermore, the roots of our emotions, even situational ones, are base instinctual ones. While we can trigger emotions from various situations, we can't be taught how to trigger various emotions. We don't feel happy at things that are awful for us, and we don't hate things that we are drawn to and aren't detrimental to us. We can be tricked into thinking that a situation is good for us when it's not (and thus we have a happy emotion at a situation that shouldn't be), but we can't be taught that categorically and unambiguously bad situations should trigger happiness. Even our "higher" emotions have their roots in the "base" ones--new categories of actually-felt emotions can't just be conjured out of thin air without reference to other emotions. Again, even if there was a real difference here between these two types of emotions, we don't know with dolphins because we can't communicate with them on that level.
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How Does An Orcas Skin Feel Like?
A Dolphin
What do you feel when you touch the pink dolphin?
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Does whales feel?
Killer whales have fairly smooth skin and are pretty slippery.
What does the pink dolphin say at five o'clock?
the pink dolphin says that he has had a chicken tikka and it has made him feel a bit ill, and by the way the pink dolphin comes from Scunthorpe. AKA Rhys Workman
How does a dolphins skin feel?
A dolphin's skin feels rubbery and is easily broke just like a humans.
What is the texture of a dolphin?
Dolphins are very smooth and feel quite rubbery. Almost like a wet suit
What is the texture of dolphin?
Dolphins are very smooth and feel quite rubbery. Almost like a wet suit
What is the size of a dolphin the dolphin is about 30 lb?
no a dolphin is about 150lbs but depends if you have a baby dolphin or a adolt dolphin and there is your dolphin anser bey
What are the names of 5 different types of dolphin?
I'll give you the 32 types the Bottlenose dolphin, the Killer Whale, the Common dolphin, the False Killer Whale, the Hector's dolphin, the Short-Finned Pilot Whale, the Commerson's dolphin, the Long-Finned Pilot Whale, the Black dolphin, the Atlantic Humpbacked dolphin, the Haeviside's dolphin, the Indo-Pacific Humpbacked dolphin, the Southern Right Whale dolphin, the Tucuxi, the Northern Right dolphin, the Pygmy Killer Whale, the Spotted dolphin, the Melon-Headed Whale, the Atlantic Spotted dolphin, the Irrawaddy dolphin, the Striped dolphin, the Rough-Toothed dolphin, the Spinner dolphin, the Risso's dolphin, the Clymene dolphin, the Fraser's dolphin, the White-Beaked dolphin, the Peale's dolphin, the Atlantic White-Sided dolphin, the Hourglass dolphin, the Pacific White-Sided dolphin and the Dusky dolphin.
What are some dolphin breeds?
Normal ocean going dolphins: Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Chilean Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Commerson's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Fraser's Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Northern Rightwhale Dolphin Pacific White-Sided Dolphin Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Risso's Dolphin Rough-Toothed Dolphin Short-Beaked Common Dolphin Southern Rightwhale Dolphin Spinner Dolphin Striped Dolphin Tucuxi White-Beaked Dolphin River or fresh water dolphins: Baiji- Chinese river dolphin Boto- Amazon river dolphin Franciscana- La plata river dolphin Ganges River Dolphin Indus River Dolphin Dolphins that are also called whales: Orca- Killer whale False Killer Whale Pygmy Killer Whale Melon-Headed Whale Long-Finned Pilot Whale Short-Finned Pilot Whale
How many tipes of dolphins are there?
Atlantic Hump-Backed Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Atlantic White Sided Dolphin Black Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Commersome's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin False Killer Whale Frasier's Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Indo-Pacific Hump-back Irrawaddy Dolphin Long-finned Pilot Whale Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Long-Snouted Spotted Dolphin Melon Headed Dolphin Northern Right-Whale Dolphin Orcas (Killer Whale) Pantropical Dolphin Pacific-White Sided Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Pygmy Killer Whale Risso's Dolphin Rough Toothed Dolphin Short Finned Pilot Whale Short Beaked Common Dolphin Southern Right Whale Dolphin Striped Dolphin White Beaked Dolphin
What does a killer whale feel like?
A Killer Whale Is Rubbery And Fairly Smooth Skin And Are Slimy Just Like A Dolphin.
