They remain all human rights. The rights they have because they are human. Without any restriction. What you consider human rights, might be up for discussion however.

I didn't see anyone mention the mash article on this: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/dolphins-reject-human-status-201202224924/

As someone who is crammed into the Picadilly Line every morning, I truly envy those dolphins.

I really don't know why somebody would be upset by this. These rights basically say you shouldn't be able to kill a dolphin, torture a dolphin or have a dolphin in captivity.

Was anybody here planning on doing this?

edit-I didn't see this was kind of discussed already. I skipped over a large part of this thread when I saw eugenics being mentioned

Why tourists? Why? There are 20 other lines but you all have to choose the Picadilly! You can really understand those sardines though.

The problem with not extending the prohibition to "scientific" purposes is that many cetaceans are slaughtered in the course of what are claimed to be "scientific" hunts. The existence of the "scientific" loophole renders the entire prohibition against whaling unenforceable against countries barbarous enough to drive a factory ship through it.

I suspect legitimate marine biologists (as opposed to whalers sailing under false flag) will be on both sides of the fence, some wanting continued limited provision for captive study, others believing we can do enough good science by observing free-ranging populations.

Dolphins are not Humans, and therefore do not deserve Human rights.

They deserve to be treated with respect, as is any other living thing, but most definitely not Human Rights, which include shelter and a right to education.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/human_rights_for_dolphins/post46

I was only half-joking but imagine what would happen if all the animals were considered too intelligent to be food. I'd refuse to become vegetarian even if it means that I'd be considered a murderer =/

Edit: Dolphin used to be a part of a traditional dish in my country not too long ago.

Apart from animal cruelty considerations, it's also dying out because dolphin and whale flesh is toxic to humans. Top predators are concentrators and reservoirs of pollutants, notably mercury, to levels that have been known to poison humans.

If we are going to give dolphins rights, shouldn't we give them "dolphin rights," and then establish what rights they do and don't have? I mean this genuinely. If dolphins are to have rights, then should they really have all the same human rights as humans? They are a different species. I say that in itself is enough to entitle them to their own set of rights, if any, instead of just giving them all of the same rights that we have. Giving them all human rights makes no sense...

EDIT:

I didn't mean to say that we give dolphin rights. I should have said "recognize" dolphin rights, to be completely accurate. I do not think that humans can give or take rights ("rights" in the sense of "human rights") away from dolphins, just that we can recognize the ones they do or don't have.

Same result, different terminology.

people really need to read the article in the link posted

Human rghts for rats and monkeys as well, then I'm in.

You forgot the crows.

You guys aren't seriously discussing human rights for dolphins over several thread pages, just because the journalists and Darling Jimmy chose a misleading headline? Nowhere in the article it says that the scientists were talking about "human rights" or accepting dolphins as fellow humans, that's just stupid. :D

I'm not really interested in taking part in the discussion and I'm not sure what to think about it, but it makes me smirk at what a weird species we are, talking about granting other species rights and reasoning in which cases we are allowed to take them away from them. :/

And you forget the elephants and parrots

HOW COOOOULD YOUUUU?!

I was sort of taking the angle that, should we meet an extra terrestrial civilization, I don't want it to be guaranteed that we'll be total assholes.

Also, did the article mention cuttlefish?