Encephalization, or brain expansion, underpins humans’ sophisticated social cognition, including language, joint attention, shared goals, teaching, consensus decision-making and empathy. These abilities promote and stabilize cooperative social interacti
If these ramming contests generally occur at a shallow depth, they may be much more common than whale biologists realize because a human observer would have to be located well above the surface of the water to watch it happen. Another reason to consider the ramming hypothesis is the extreme ...
the seemingly arbitrary inventory of coda types can be explained by combinations of rhythm, tempo, rubato, and ornamentation features. Sizable combinatorial vocalisation systems are exceedingly rare in nature; however, their use by sperm whales shows that they are not uniquely human, and can arise ...
Relative brain size in some odontocete species is greater than non-human primates [3], and in absolute terms, the giant sperm whale (Physeter ... Demʹjanov, V. F - 《Bmc Evolutionary Biology》 被引量: 8发表: 2011年 加载更多0
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Abstract Flexible production and perception of vocalizations is linked to an impressive array of cognitive capacities including language acquisition by humans, song learning by birds, biosonar in bats, and vocal imitation by cetaceans. Here, we characterize a portion of the repertoire of one of the...
Despite the absolute magnitude and highly-developed neuroanatomical structure of the cetacean brain, the extent to which cetaceans possess a grammatical-syntactical language remains uncertain1. Regardless, cetaceans have cognitive abilities2 and societies3 that are commensurate with those of human ...
According to the research findings, a whale’s brain possesses human-like shuttle cells that are responsible for social, judgment, emotional and other behaviors. This is why, in recent years, people have been curious about these intelligent sea animals. Humpback whales are aggressive hunters. ...
By using a Global Ocean framework, simulations could inform other efforts to minimize negative interactions with human activities. For instance, the ability to place whale migrations in a Global Ocean means predicted movements could be connected with other information, such as maritime traffic or ...