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| | Dolphins |
 | | Dolphin sleep appears to be different from Human sleep in another way: the brain waves of sleeping Dolphins have no state that corresponds to the rapid-eye-movement REM sleep of dreaming Humans. | | | Dolphin and Human Brains may contain BioMagnetite that could give them an electromagnetic sense that could provide a link between Brains and many types of electromagnetic phenomena, including but not limited to Schumann Resonance Phenomena. | | | As with Human medical sonograms, Dolphin sonar vision may be able to see interior organs and structures. |
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http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Dolphin.html
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| | Dolpins Behaviour Page 1 - Dolphins and Whales Window |
| | However several researchers have examined the social behaviour of dolphins and tried to extract from an understanding of the level of communication between individuals, which in turn is interpreted as a measure of intelligence. | | | This means that the dolphins must not only be aware of their next-door neighbours but also other individuals near by - in a similar manner to which humans perform "Mexican waves". | | | Studies based on captive dolphins have limits, because it is not clear how natural their behaviour is under those conditions. |
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http://dolphins.jump-gate.com/start_page/behaviour.shtml
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| | Dolphin Consciousness: Everything you wanted to know about dolphins, but were afraid to ask |
| | Origins of humrn consciourness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind. | | | This co-occurrence of communicative and perceptual processes in the same modality may cause dolphins to be unable to distinguish their sonar from their communications (Lilly, 1967). | | | Dolphins demonstrate many behaviors that show signs of conscious awareness. |
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http://home.onemain.com/~dk1008206/html/dolph1.htm
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| | Earthcode: Dolphin-Human Connection |
| | For instance, inside the dolphin brain is a chamber that baffles researchers: recent studies imply that this mysterious area of the brain may serve in achieving meditative states, contemplation or abstract thought. | | | The ancestral connections between dolphins and humans is based on continuing research and other convincing evidence. | | | Homosexual contact is common among dolphins and is rarely found elsewhere among animals (although there are studies in which this behavior has been observed in other animal species). |
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http://paulapeterson.com/dolphin_human_connection.html
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| | Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time |
| | The highly expanded brain size and behavioral abilities of odontocetes are, in a sense, convergently shared with humans, she says. | | | In addition to their large brains, odontocetes have demonstrated behavioral faculties previously only ascribed to humans and, to some extent, other great apes. | | | The study, which will appear in the December issue of The Anatomical Record, was done by Emory psychologist Lori Marino, a faculty member in the university’s Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, and her colleagues Daniel McShea from Duke University and Mark Uhen from the Cranbrook Institute of Science. |
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http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-35382.html
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Swimming in Circles |
| | Researchers have suggested that dolphin brain anatomy, social behaviors or sleep patterns may be responsible for this counterclockwise preference. | | | The eight dolphins spent a total of 86% of their time in clockwise behaviors. | | | The dolphins spent only 14% of their time in counterclockwise behaviors (swimming, 7%; hanging, 7%). |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/dolp.html
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| | Dolphin Merging is an excellent way to bring dolphin wisdom, creativity and playfulness into your life as you relax and follow Alijandra's soothing voice into a state of deep relaxation. | | | Transfigurational Matrix Healing(TM) was born to encompass the newly received energies and knowledge from Source, which will help us to completely shift ourselves into a more completely aligned, healthy, higher frequency essence expressing in our human form. | | | I found this CD to be both thought provoking and relaxing. |
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http://www.colorhealing.com/reviews/dolphin1reviews.htm
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| | Brains, Behaviour and Intelligence in Cetaceans
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| | Normal variations in brain and body size have only been well studied in a, few species, and usually a researcher seeking to compile extensive brain and body weight lists has no choice but to take whatever specimens are available, regardless of whether the material is really representative of the species as a whole. | | | Experiments have shown that some dolphins may have the rudimentary skills necessary for understanding and use of language, but these skills seem fairly common, and have so far been found in a range of species including pigeons, pinnipeds and apes. | | | Studies of the internal structure of carefully preserved dolphin brains using a variety of techniques (e.g. |
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http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Myths/br-be-an.htm
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| | Brain Size and Cognition in Primates |
| | Our guest speaker for this lecture is Dr. Andrew Richards of UM who has researched and published on primates, but the focus of his research is on dolphins who are the only other animal up there with primates in terms of brain capacity. | | | This theory is interesting because both chimps and bottle-nosed dolphins live in complex social systems. | | | There is also the click, some of which falls into the human hearing range, but much of which is ultrasonic. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~phyl/anthro/cognition.html
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| | Cerveau du dauphin : Dolphin Brain Research. Ken Levasseur. |
| | The relationship between brains and behavior is nowhere near being completely understood but headway is being made, although rarely fast enough to keep up with the speculation it generates. | | | As each behavioral relationship to the brain is hypothesized, new research can be designed to fill the gaps through verification. | | | Or is the answer more in tune with those who feel that large brains develop to provide the individual with social advantages. |
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http://www.dauphinlibre.be/brain.htm
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| | Dolphin Brain Overlay |
| | They simply shut down one of the brain hemispheres, indicating perhaps an always awakened state, or a new kind of lucid dreaming.(depending on which side of the brain is temporarily resting) Perhaps, their whole lives are a dream, or they see no difference between the dream state and the awake state of consciousness! | | | It is interesting to point out that for dolphins, the group social interaction is of primary importance, as are other talents we have only begun to scratch the surface of in our studying of them. | | | Perhaps the extra frontal lobe is the secret to their ---let's face it---superiority of being; their ability to utilize their brains at what appears to be full capacity. |
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http://www.colorhealing.com/articles/dolphinbrain.html
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| | Dolphins and Man.....Equals? |
| | Dolphins have no prehensile extremities; hence their intelligence has never gone in the direction of manipulating their environment -- their thoughts have been left to develop inward. | | | A dolphin's skin is extremely delicate and easily injured by rough surfaces--very similar to human skin. | | | It has been suggested that the reason dolphins always seem to be grinning is that they understand our language and are patiently waiting for us to learn theirs. |
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http://www.littletownmart.com/dolphins
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| | Ultimate Guide: Dolphins |
| | "This behavior is particularly interesting because it shows that the dolphin had a sense of the future and delayed gratification. | | | Almost every time the experiment was repeated Buzz pushed the correct switch, leading Dr. Bastian to conclude that dolphins can communicate abstract ideas, such as left and right. | | | In a noted experiment Dr. Javis Bastian found that dolphins could communicate about abstract ideas. |
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http://www.tursiops.org/dolfin/guide/smart.html
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| | Oceanlink marine sciences education and fun |
| | Dolphins have genital and anal slits on their bellies. | | | They also have very sensitive skin, which also plays a role in communication, and they are able to feel pain. | | | While the ability to quickly learn to recognize a specific individual vocalization may have some genetic basis, the young animal is not born recognizing its mothers vocalizations - learning must still take place. |
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http://oceanlink.island.net/ask/odontoceti.html
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| | Pfizer: BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head |
| | Your brain makes up only two percent of your body's weight but uses 20 percent of your body's fuel. | | | Your brain never turns off throughout your entire life. | | | It doesn't seem to do much of anything. |
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| | Water Planet Links, awards and bibliography |
| | Hoegel, V.D. Perceptions of dolphin therapists and dolphin researchers on using dolphin assisted therapy with symptomatic HIV desease. | | | KW Adopt a Family is bringing a memorable holiday experience to 55 families by providing gifts, clothes and food to each of these families in need. | | | Our Dolphin Encounters will be your most memorable experience. |
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | What I find especially significant about our study is fact that the primate brain and the dolphin brain are very different in a number of ways. | | | MARINO: Well, we had a very carefully controlled method to determine this, and that is, one of the criteria that we used was that the animal did not give any social responses to the mirror. | | | CHEN: Now, Dr. Marino, I understand that you have something of a prop with you to explain to us the difference between dolphin brains and our own, and that of primates. |
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http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/02/ns.05.html
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| | The Realm of The Dolphin |
| | .nobody fully knows how they communicate, or how much of their brains they are able to utilize, but some of the most fascinating facts about dolphins are those that deal with communication. | | | She has some really nice thoughts and information about dolphins there, along with some of her writing, which is also very good. | | | Their web site is a marine mammal research and educational center. |
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| | JoJo the Dolphin |
| | They have the remarkable ability to rest one half of their brain while the other remains alert for approaching danger, and then are able to switch which side they are resting. | | | Dolphins are "conscious breathers" which means that they have to be awake or semi-conscious to breathe or else they will drown. | | | Bottlenose dolphins can live to over 30 years of age and some studies have aged individuals at 50 years old when they died. |
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| | Animal Planet :: Dolphins Explored |
| | A dolphin's skin is extremely delicate and easily injured by rough surfaces — much like human skin. | | | Bonds form between individual dolphins that may last a lifetime. | | | A dolphin's brain, in relation to the size of its body, is larger than the brains of chimpanzees and great apes. |
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| | Discovery Channel :: News :: Dolphin, Human Brain Size Not So Differen |
| | An average-sized brain for the body weight produces an EQ of one. | | | Such intelligence is probably due their big brains, but the evolution of such brains has remained a mystery. | | | An animal with an EQ less than one indicates a smaller-than-average brain; an EQ greater than one, a relatively large brain. |
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041108/dolphin.html
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| | Dolphin Communication |
| | Bottle-nosed dolphins dominate many marine acts because of their intelligence and researchers believe much of the dolphin's brain is used for communication or "echolocation". | | | Unlike humans, dolphins lack vocal cords, but they do use a complicated system of whistles, squeaks, moans, trills and clicks produced by sphincter muscles within the blow hole. | | | Dolphins have produced sound frequencies from 0.25 to 200 kHz, using the higher frequencies for echolocation and the lower frequencies for communication and orientation. |
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http://www.beach-net.com/dolphins/communication.html
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| | The Navigable Atlas of the Dolphin Brain |
| | Click here for the reference, and for a list of our other publications on cetacean brains. | | | A description of the brain used for the MRI images in this atlas has been published in The Anatomical Record. |
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