{"id":5482,"date":"2015-09-29T03:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/the-emotional-reverb-of-dolphins-in-their-social-media"},"modified":"2015-09-29T03:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:36:58","slug":"the-emotional-reverb-of-dolphins-in-their-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/the-emotional-reverb-of-dolphins-in-their-social-media","title":{"rendered":"The emotional reverb of dolphins in their social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my underwater video compilation<\/a>, and by boat<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This enormous pod of playful spinner dolphins reminded me of an earlier post:<\/p>\n

\u201cDolphins have a massive new brain area, the paralimbic lobe, that we do not possess. The paralimbic lobe is an outgrowth of the cingulate gyrus, which is known to elaborate social communication and social emotions in all other mammals. Thus, dolphins may have social thoughts and feelings that we can only vaguely imagine.\u201d (Mind Wide Open<\/i>, p.225.)<\/p>\n

A research update<\/a>: "Despite the divergent evolutionary paths of dolphins and primates — and their vastly different brains — both have developed similar high-level cognitive abilities\u2026 [and] the capacity for mirror self-recognition, a feat of intelligence previously thought to be reserved only for Homo sapiens and their closest primate cousins" \u2014 which is all the more interesting since they can\u2019t see their own reflection under water (leading me to my own crack-pot theory<\/a> that self-recognition may be a misnomer). <\/p>\n

Posted<\/a> by jurvetson <\/a> on 2015-04-21 18:28:46 <\/p>\n

[shock_spots id=”2726″]
\n<\/p>\n

Tagged: , Spinner , Dolphins , Social , Media , Underwater , Snorkeling , Kona , Hawaii , Magical , Big , Island , Hawai\u2019I , Emotional , Reverberation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s my underwater video compilation, and by boat. This enormous pod of playful spinner dolphins reminded me of an earlier post: \u201cDolphins have a massive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}