Christine Keneally

First off, the Galloway Mansion was beautiful and massive! Christine Keneally started off with talking about her book on language and its origin. I am not someone who really gives these kind of things thought. I just think well somewhere along the lines, people began talking. But when Christine began reading and talking a little bit about her work it caught my attention. She used animals to reference to and related their actions to our own human actions. I thought the research she had found out about the dolphin was the most interesting. She said that dolphins eat their fish cut up into three parts. The dolphin would only eat the first two parts and would eat the tail but a certain part ( I can’t remember what it is called) had to be stripped from it. So one day the trainer accidently left the part on the tail. Well, when the dolphin ate it, it began to act weird and swam away and did a vertical jump. So then one day, the trainer left the part on the tail on purpose and the dolphin responded the same way. I think it is fascinating how even though we can not communicate with animals the same way we communicate with other humans; there is still some for of communication.