Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

Overview

Journal PLoS Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2007 May 17

PMID 17503965

Citations 65

Authors

Lori Marino

Richard C Connor

R Ewan Fordyce

Louis M Herman

Patrick R Hof

Louis Lefebvre

David Lusseau

Brenda McCowan

Esther A Nimchinsky

Adam A Pack

Luke Rendell

Joy S Reidenberg

Diana Reiss

Mark D Uhen

Estel Van der Gucht

Hal Whitehead

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