[China Clipper]

As a biology student I came across interesting facts concerning the brains of dolphins, which surprised me.

1) Their brains are larger then those of humans, even taking brain to body ratio into calculation.

2) Dolphin brains also have way more astrocytes. Astrocytes determine how much energy will be made available for neurons to use, modulate growth of the brain and development of neurons and have roles in associative and abstract thought. Usually more astrocytes means higher intelligence when it comes to animal species, and Einstein for instance had more astrocytes in his parietal lobes, which are involved in a.e. abstract mathematics. Dogs have more than rats, apes more than dogs, humans more then apes, and dolphins more than humans.

...and yet the darn things STILL seem to get caught in a stupid net by tuna fishermen. So much for higher intellegence...

[China Clipper]

hehe

intellegence=intelligence

When will we be able to edit our OWN posts??!?!?!

[China Clipper]

hehe

intellegence=intelligence

When will we be able to edit our OWN posts??!?!?!

[S0122017]

and yet the darn things STILL seem to get caught in a stupid net by tuna fishermen.

Good point :). However it is not just intelligence but also senses. If there senses are not able to pick up nets, than it doesn't matter how smart they are as they have no "input" to "compute". And besides, humans are smart, but that doesn't prevent us from running into eachother in cars because we get distracted. Perhaps dolphins get distracted by female dolphins swimming by or something.