These include bulls, birds, hippocampi, a panther, a lion and a goat.
The appearance of hippocampi in both freshwater and saltwater is counter-intuitive to a modern audience, though not to an ancient one.
Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain.
The adaptive specialization hypothesis states that animals that hide food should have bigger hippocampi than animals that do not hide food.
This lamina contains some transverse fibers that connect the two hippocampi across the middle line and constitute the commissure of fornix (hippocampal commissure).
An example of such a study is the lesioning of rat hippocampi to establish the role of the hippocampus in object recognition and object recency.
Studies have tended to indicate that men have a relatively larger amygdalae and hypothalamus, while women have a relatively larger caudate and hippocampi.
For example, in the rat, the two hippocampi look similar to a pair of bananas, joined at the stems.
