...), we estimated the peak anatomical spatial resolving power in water to be 4.8 cycles/degree and 3.3 cycles/degree in the Bryde’s whale and the humpback whale, respectively. Overall, our findings for these two species are very similar to those reported for other species of cetaceans. This indicates...

...Sam H. Ridgway; Kevin P. Carlin; Kaitlin R. Van Alstyne; Alicia C. Hanson; Raymond J. Tarpley We compared mature dolphins with 4 other groupings of mature cetaceans. With a large data set, we found great brain diversity among 5 different taxonomic groupings. The dolphins in our data set ranged...

...Onur Güntürkün cortex. cetaceans Dolphins Animal cognition Animal communication Cetacean Cognitive evolution In 1969, Hodos and Campbell [1969] published a landmark paper with the title ‘Scala naturae: why there is no theory in comparative psychology'. In it, the authors argued...

... Cetacean Pinniped Brain evolution Mammal The semiaquatic pinnipeds are a relatively recent lineage of the Canidae suborder of carnivores, having a monophyletic origin dating to approximately 23 million years ago [Bininda-Emonds et al., 1999; Higdon et al., 2007]. It has been proposed...

... Alexander Ya. Supin Scvcrtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology. Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow. Russia Original Paper Brain Behav Evo! 1995:45:257-265 Ganglion Cell Topography of the Retina in the Bottlenosed Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Key Words Cetacean Dolphin Vision Retina...

...Sam H. Ridgway Studies of sleep in cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), substantiated by electrophysiological data, are rare with the great majority of observations having been made by one group from Russia. This group employed hard-wired recording with low-noise cables for their EEG...

... and porpoises) and the other is our own order Primates, and in particular the suborder anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes, and humans). Despite a deep evolutionary divergence, adaptation to physically dissimilar environments, and very different neuroanatomical organization, some primates and cetaceans show...