"Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition"
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
PLoS Biology
Vol. 5, no. 5
5/15/07
In this article, researchers assert that the time is ripe to present an integrated view of cetacean brains, behavior, and evolution based on the wealth of accumulated and recent data on these topics. Their conclusions support the more generally accepted view that the large brain of cetaceans evolved to support complex cognitive abilities.