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From: Donald Black
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:02

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.Yes heard of those, good, but large brain isn't complete. Complex
>should be added: think of the fable of the 'smart dolphins'. Their
>brainsize is equal to ours, but they are probably the dumbest animals
>alive because of the homogeneous brain mass.

>> Dumb by whose standards?

>Many neuroscientists.

Whoa! Could you cite a source for this?  What reasearch I've read suggests
the opposite and I'd like to know where this opposite viewpoint eminates.
Dolphins "name" each other by assigning signature whistles.  Symbolic
behavior is not a trait of "dumb" animals.  In fact only a few very
intelligent animals on this planet can.

Obidon

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