Sound-Pictures

[drew hempel]

I just finished Julia Whitty's amazing book: "The Fragile Edge: Diving and other adventures in the south pacific" (2007).

She talks about Dr. Ken Norris' discovery of "sound-pictures" as a "sensory integration system" for complex social behavior, focusing on dolphins.

http://www.kulanaia.org/research2.html#acoustics

Ah and 90% of deep sea life is bioluminsecent. Rock on.

[drew hempel]

More details:

http://books.google.com/books?id=vyGnNbpXxWsC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22tom+dohl%22+dolphin&source=web&ots=rU5CPHWbMC&sig=HU2YhSfUtqTIfoyI4jFlNQHNETY#PPA180,M1

[drew hempel]

How do birds see at night -- through magnetic fields activated by cryptochrome, common in plants and spirulina!

http://anomalist.com

The inner-ear pineal gland in action....