@AnthonyMetivier @walruswhisperer Well they tend to have smaller less developed hippocampus relative to humans, but that makes sense in a relatively featureless ocean. https://t.co/SYU7GCGrHk
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@jomaksic I remembered this article from a few years back, but I don't know of much else. In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis https://t.co/4H7KlK9Owk
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@MHendr1cks @brembs @JohnKubie Indeed. Think regional volume differences that are most promising to lead to functional insight are large inter-species differences that correlate with large environmental, body, behaviour difference. One intriguing trail for
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RT @apeyrache: Cetaceans have small hippocampi compared to their relative brain size. Perhaps because they don't use map-based navigation.…