Ep 235: Elephants, their big brains and handy faces
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Elephants, their big brains and handy faces
The largest animal on land also has the largest brain. With complex social lives, cooperative problem solving, self-awareness and tool use, the elephants also have brains that have three times the number of neurons that our brains do. Join us as we take a look at elephants.
Here’s a paper on the size of elephant brains, and the number of neurons they have.
Here’s a paper on some unique things about elephant brains.
What elephants’ unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
And here are a couple of articles about the evolution of these large and intelligent animals..