Dolphins Can Maintain Vigilant Behavior through Echolocation for 15 Days without Interruption or Cognitive Impairment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Branstetter, Brian K ^a   Finneran, James J ^b   Fletcher, Elizabeth A ^c   Weisman, Brian C ^b   Ridgway, Sam H ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b LAC+USC Medical Center   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; VIGILANT BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84867656885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047478     Document Type: Article

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