How does a crocodile's brain work on music?
What happens in the brain of a crocodile when it hears complex sounds? An international research team led by Dr. Felix Ströckens from the Department of Biopsychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) gave the answer to this question. In an initial study, the researchers investigated a cold-blooded reptile using functional MRI. They were thus able to establish that complex stimuli caused activation patterns in the crocodile brain similar to those found in birds and mammals, a deep understanding of evolution. The results were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on April 25, 2018.
Crocodile
Crocodiles are among the oldest species of vertebrate animals and have barely changed in space of more than 200 million years. That's why they form a link between dinosaurs and bird species today.
