If a fish could talk... it could actually talk. Well almost, as it seems fish have vocal circuitry that is similar to that of humans. Andrew Bass, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, has been studying the midshipman's vocal habits for more than a decade. Recently, he and two colleagues mapped out the neural circuitry that controls the fish's soundmaking. They found that a set of rhythmically firing neurons control ... Read full entry
A fish that talks? Of course, of course
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 21 July, 2008 to the comment subset
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