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Jesus Malverde

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Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:26 PM Jan 2014

Dolphins see the world in the same way as humans do according to research

Dolphins see the world in a similar way to humans according to new research.

Despite living in such different environments, the study concluded that dolphins, humans and chimpanzees perceive the world "in fundamentally similar ways".

Researchers at the University of Kyoto in Japan carried out a study comparing the different animals

The dolphins were set a visual-matching task using two-dimensional geometric forms including various features.


The results showed that "the visual world is perceived similarly by the three species of mammals, even though each has adapted to a different environment and has differing degrees of dependence on vision.

Previous studies of dolphin vision have used complicated three-dimensional structures which make it much more difficult for researchers to identify the types of visual cues used by dolphins to distinguish between objects.

Dolphins have poorer visual acuity, or clearness of vision, than other species as well as a limited colour vision.
However both primates and dolphins perceive the world 'in fundamentally similar ways."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10579731/Dolphins-see-the-world-in-the-same-way-as-humans-do-according-to-research.html
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Dolphins see the world in the same way as humans do according to research (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Jan 2014 OP
They check out booties? underpants Jan 2014 #1
The dolphin brain has a structure in the rear that looks like a third hemisphere KamaAina Jan 2014 #2
 

KamaAina

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2. The dolphin brain has a structure in the rear that looks like a third hemisphere
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:54 PM
Jan 2014

I hypothesize that its function is similar to that of the audio or video card in a computer, that is, to process the echolocation signals and such.

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