The problem with your example is grouping all dolphins together.
This reminds me of some prominent speaker's example of space Aliens testing for human intelligence by beaming up 100 people and assigning them the task of building a computer.
You'd get very different results if you beamed up 100 random people from a shopping mall, vs. 100 random people from MIT.
How smart would YOU look if you were raised by yourself in a zoo habitat? There's an enormous amount of "intelligence" which depends on cultural transmission of information at specific developmental periods. Language is one well-known example; IIRC, if a child is neglected linguistically around the age of 2-3, they can't make up for it later and will never quite acquire a "human" level of language.
What if the adults of your tribe were wiped out, and the children grew up and had a makeshift society afterward? This is effectively what has happened repeatedly with whale and dolphin pods.
Further, dolphins don't all know each other. So tribe X may not inform tribe Y of a dangerous location.
Dolphins who have knowledge of the slaughter may avoid it in the future. They may try to keep their pod away from it. Maybe the pod doesn't believe them, and the leaders "march" in blithely, as happens with humans all the time. Or maybe there are no survivors to warn others. Or maybe they are traumatized and become loners and don't talk to anyone after that.
As for your "commando" example, there are countless counterexamples where humans DON'T join up to go on the offensive, because of personal risk.
And there are countless examples where humans keep doing something dangerous where there is a high probability of getting killed.
Children are highly intelligent, but innocence and lack of experience can make you an easy target for a predator. And there are institutions, like "tough love" camps where parents ship their kids, some of which have a horrendous history of child abuse, and yet they still operate.
Where are the commando raids on Catholic priests? Guess humans aren't too smart.
The problem with your example is grouping all dolphins together.
This reminds me of some prominent speaker's example of space Aliens testing for human intelligence by beaming up 100 people and assigning them the task of building a computer.
You'd get very different results if you beamed up 100 random people from a shopping mall, vs. 100 random people from MIT.
How smart would YOU look if you were raised by yourself in a zoo habitat? There's an enormous amount of "intelligence" which depends on cultural transmission of information at specific developmental periods. Language is one well-known example; IIRC, if a child is neglected linguistically around the age of 2-3, they can't make up for it later and will never quite acquire a "human" level of language.
What if the adults of your tribe were wiped out, and the children grew up and had a makeshift society afterward? This is effectively what has happened repeatedly with whale and dolphin pods.
Further, dolphins don't all know each other. So tribe X may not inform tribe Y of a dangerous location.
Dolphins who have knowledge of the slaughter may avoid it in the future. They may try to keep their pod away from it. Maybe the pod doesn't believe them, and the leaders "march" in blithely, as happens with humans all the time. Or maybe there are no survivors to warn others. Or maybe they are traumatized and become loners and don't talk to anyone after that.
As for your "commando" example, there are countless counterexamples where humans DON'T join up to go on the offensive, because of personal risk.
And there are countless examples where humans keep doing something dangerous where there is a high probability of getting killed.
Children are highly intelligent, but innocence and lack of experience can make you an easy target for a predator. And there are institutions, like "tough love" camps where parents ship their kids, some of which have a horrendous history of child abuse, and yet they still operate.
Where are the commando raids on Catholic priests? Guess humans aren't too smart.