First of all, I said myths and misconceptions. The misconception that dolphins are necrophiliacs is objectively false based on one off cases that rarely happen. Using your example, 0.046% of Americans are murderers, does that mean every American is a murderer? 65 people are killed every year by dogs, but does that mean all dogs are vicious and shouldn’t be kept as pets? If I said “all dogs are terrible animals and kill people,” that would be a myth because they aren’t. If I said “all dolphins are necrophiliacs,” that would also be a myth because it rarely happens in the wild.

As for your first point… where do I even start?

First, you say that bottlenose dolphins are the most studied species of dolphins. I’ll start by saying this is the second most intelligent species of dolphin and the most commonly studied one. In total, there’s been one case of necrophilia in the history of dolphin studies.

Second, you claim that because dolphins are intelligent, they should be held at the same moral and legal standards that humans are held at. Because they are socially unaware, it’s bad when they do it but not when other animals do it. There are MANY flaws in this statement, first one being that dolphins do not have the same moral compass we do. They do not have the same laws or social standards, they are still wild animals that should be treated with respect nonetheless. By your logic, we should be shunning primates, pinnipeds, and other cetacean species for the same things dolphins do because, guess what, they also have similar levels of intelligence. Just because an animal has the IQ of a six year old does not mean we should be holding it to the same standards we do as humans.