Dolphins can maintain vigilant behavior through echolocation for 15 days without interruption or cognitive impairment.

Dolphins can maintain vigilant behavior through echolocation for 15 days without interruption or cognitive impairment.

In dolphins, natural selection has developed unihemispheric sleep where alternating hemispheres of their brain stay awake. This allows dolphins to maintain consciousness in response to respiratory demands of the ocean. Unihemispheric sleep may also allow dolphins to maintain vigilant states over lon...

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Main Authors: Brian K Branstetter, James J Finneran, Elizabeth A Fletcher, Brian C Weisman, Sam H Ridgway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3474785?pdf=render

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