Re: Norway's blubber mountain

Article View: talk.environment

Article #1792

#1792

From: Didier A. Depireux
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:00

23 lines
1968 bytes

Masaaki Ishida (ishida@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com) wrote:
: William A. Levinson wrote:
: > Seriously, whales are intelligent creatures with brains as large or
: > larger than our own. I would be hesitant to consume them for that

: Is it agreed among scientists that large brain indicates intelligence?

It certainly is agreed that it's not the case. When it come to brain
mass/body mass ratios, I think that the ferret stands out.  While there is
a correlation between an animal being intelligent (by our definitions) and
the brain being massive, a large brain does not imply intelligence.

There's an extensive review by Este Armstrong in 'The human nervous system'
about that very question.

					Didier

--
Didier A Depireux                              didier@isr.umd.edu
Neural Systems Lab                 http://www.isr.umd.edu/~didier
Institute for Systems Research          Phone: 301-405-6557 (off)
University of Maryland                                -6596 (lab)
College Park MD 20742 USA                     Fax: 1-301-314-9920

Technical Details

Message-ID: <77fq14$qlb$1@hecate.umd.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<2e5_9812302104@salata.com> <3691C3D8.C76@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com> <36958A85.3E161F7A@ix.NOSPAM4MEnetcom.com> <369AFE22.7EEE@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: fb58e,77f6e9cce849281f
X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public
X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,cbc0f1ce98ae91c8
X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public
X-Google-Thread: f63ac,77f6e9cce849281f
X-Google-Attributes: gidf63ac,public
X-Google-Thread: 10065c,cbc0f1ce98ae91c8
X-Google-Attributes: gid10065c,public
From: didier@Glue.umd.edu (Didier A. Depireux)
Subject: Re: Norway's blubber mountain
Date: 1999/01/12
Message-ID: <77fq14$qlb$1@hecate.umd.edu>
X-Deja-AN: 431695415
References: <2e5_9812302104@salata.com> <3691C3D8.C76@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com> <36958A85.3E161F7A@ix.NOSPAM4MEnetcom.com> <369AFE22.7EEE@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com>
Followup-To: talk.environment,alt.animals.whales,sci.bio.misc,bionet.neuroscience
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Newsgroups: talk.environment,alt.animals.whales,sci.bio.misc,bionet.neuroscience

Reply to Parent Message