It appears as if <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
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|Of course, when I think of elephants, the size of their _brain_ isn't the
|first thing I think of... I assume you mean elephants and whales have high
|brain-body ratios; their having large brains is in of itself uninteresting, as
|they have large bodies to control. But then the next question to ask is what
|are those species doing with the extra brain matter?
Elephants apparently use more of their brain for memory than other mammals.
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