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One Track Mind ... Jon Lien, a professor at St. John's University, New Foundland, and an expert on whale behaviour, has made a thought provoking contribution to the debate on whale intelligence. "The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos of brains and 1,000 kilos of testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about," said Lien recently to the Norwegian Telegram Agency. Every Which Way Cetaceans seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in sexual activity. This may be generated by boredom in captivity, but observers in the wild tend to confirm it. Dolphins engage in love-play with almost every creature in sight - with mothers, brothers, fathers, daughters, cousins of aunts. There is even one record of a Bottlenose Dolphin masturnating with a herring. (R. Brown, The Lure of the Dolphin, Avon: New York, 1979.) "Great Balls of Fire" Published in the International Harpoon, No.2, 1995. IWC 47, Dublin. Click here to return to the Cartoons Contents Page