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Dolphin brain

Marcello Spinella marshmallow at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 23 10:38:21 EST 1999


Elepants have bigger brains too. That doesnt make them smarter
necessarily.  More important is the ratio of brain size to body size.


TonyJeffs2 wrote:
> 
> Dolphins have biger brains than people. I always thought maybe it is a bigger
> cerebellum or something to do with movement,  but I recently heared that they
> have a bigger cerebral cortex, so now I'm intrigued.  Do they have a larger
> cortical surface area, I wonder.    Anyone know where I can find out something
> about the dolphin brain?
> 
> Thanks
> Tony




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