Thursday, November 22, 2012

Dolphins as a parallel civilization

Dolphins are intelligent animals. New arguments in favor of this hypothesis given recent research by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania. For quite a long time, experts learn the language of dolphins and achieved startling results. It is known that acoustic signals occur in nasal passages of dolphins during the passage of air from there. It was found that animals using 60 basic signs and five levels of their combination. Dolphins are able to create a "dictionary" with a capacity of 1012 "words"! Hardly Dolphins use so many "words", but the number of their signals is impressive - about 14,000 For comparison, the same amount of volume dictionary words are human. Ordinary people use when communicating 800-1000 words. Signal the dolphin if it into human language is a kind of character, which means more than one word. The presence of dolphin language in which a complexity surpasses that of humans is sensational. Rare abilities    Nature sometimes invents amazing puzzles. And one of these puzzles are undoubtedly dolphins. Despite the fact that they often live in front of people, we know very little about them. But even what little is known about these animals is amazing. Dolphins are really amazing abilities. And it's so incredible that American John Lilly, who has studied the brain at the University of Pennsylvania, called the dolphins' parallel civilization. " First, the great surprise of researchers produce size and structure of the dolphin brain. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania examined the animal with MRI and saw that the structure of the nervous system of dolphins is so perfect that it sometimes seems as if it is better developed than in humans. "The brain of the dolphin - said Professor barked Sai - weighs 1,700 grams, 350 grams more than the brain of an adult male. Dolphin brain complexity is not inferior to the human brain. The total number of nerve cells in the brain of the dolphin is larger than in humans. Previously, scientists believed that the dolphin brain is so large because nerve cells are not as dense as in humans. However, it turned out that there was no difference in density. It is true that the dolphin brain is more like a sphere, unlike the brain of Homo sapiens, which is slightly flattened. When dolphins are associative areas of the cerebral cortex, which are identical to human. "This indirectly suggests that dolphins may be reasonable" - say specialists in Marine Biology. Biologists who conducted experiments with dolphins were surprised to notice that often marine life began to control the course of the experiment and its organizers - the creative energy of the dolphins was passed, and they offer the experimentalists to complicate and modify tasks in which scientists suddenly noticed that they themselves have become an experimental model for the Dolphins, who tried to razamenyat roles with them. So who is studying whom?

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