Carnivores and number of nerve cells

Dogs win tally of nerve cells in the outer wrinkles of the brain

Many researchers decide to choose 8 animals from the carnivore family: ferret, banded mongoose, raccoon, cat, dog, hyena, lion, and brown bear. They chose these animals in or to see how different size brains compared in the number of nerve cells in the brain. They determined that there was a pretty good link between the number of nerve cells and the size of the brain, except for the larger carnivores like the lion and bear. They both have less neurons then a dog.
It really interesting that they made this discovery because you would think that dogs are extremely smart but the fact that because animals with larger brains have a lot less neurons is incredible.

Comments

  1. chrheaFebruary 2, 2018 at 1:02 PM

    Awesome... its the wrinkles/#neurons, not the size that counts.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2018 at 6:02 AM

    This is very interesting! Who would've thought its not the size of the brain that matters?

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