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Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep in the Amazonian dolphin, Inia geoffrensis
1Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Neuroscience Letters
|August 18, 1987
Abstract:
An electroencephalographic study of sleep in Amazonian dolphins, Inia geoffrensis, revealed that unihemispheric slow-wave sleep is the dominant sleep type in this species, as in the other two dolphin species that were studied earlier.