Sometimes when their trainer gives the hand signal for “Do something creative together," two dolphins circle a pool in tandem and then leap through the air simultaneously. On other occasions the same signal elicits synchronized backward swims or tail-waving. These behaviors are not simply learned responses to a given that may include the use of language and forethought.
What this question is testing
Argument
Trainers give a hand signal that means "do something creative together." Two dolphins sometimes circle and leap, sometimes swim backward in sync, sometimes do tail-waves. The author concludes this isn't just learned response — these dolphins are doing something more cognitive, maybe even using language and planning.
Evaluate
The skeptical worry: maybe the dolphins are just rotating through a small fixed menu of trained behaviors. That would be normal training, not high-level cognition. To strengthen the argument, we need evidence that the dolphins are producing genuinely new behaviors — things outside any fixed menu. That points to invention, not memorization.
Goal
Find an answer that confirms novel behavior — that dolphins regularly come up with things that weren't trained.
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