Dolphins practice Mad-Eye Moody style vigilance!
source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501090908.htm
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Dolphins have a clever trick for overcoming sleep deprivation. Sam Ridgway from the US Navy Marine Mammal Program explains that they are able to send half of their brains to sleep while the other half remains conscious. What is more, the mammals seem to be able to remain continually vigilant for sounds for days on end. All of this made Ridgway and his colleagues from San Diego and Tel Aviv wonder whether the dolphins' unrelenting auditory vigilance tired them and took a toll on the animals' other senses?
I think dolphins are so much more awesome than we give them credit for. We should probably send ambassadors to them and send little children out to learn their dolphin language.
I think dolphins are so much more awesome than we give them credit for. We should probably send ambassadors to them and send little children out to learn their dolphin language.
