"Dolphins have a massive new brain area, the paralimbic lobe, that we do not possess. The paralimbic lobe is an outgrowth of the cingulate gyrus, which is known to elaborate social communication and social emotions (such as feelings of separation distress and maternal intent) in all other mammals. Thus, dolphins may have social thoughts and feelings that we can only vaguely imagine."
-- Jaak Panksepp in "Affective Neuroscience", Oxford University Press, 1998, referenced from Steven Johnson's "Mind Wide Open" and quoted by Nick Papadakis in a post to qotd.
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