Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry
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Why Whales Use Their Nose Instead of Their Throat?
Odontosseeds have no facial expressions because all the modern neurons that are normally going to facial expressions are going to the sound production system. So they have extreme details controlled over this system at the loss of a facial expression. That's useful, especially if you're in the dark. You don't need to see what's going on with the face of your friend. No. Are you smiling? This is all happening in the nose, the nasal passages. When birds do it, they have a totally different organ. And now we know that these tooth whales are like, no, we're going to go with the nose. Do we know why it makes sense for them to use
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