Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2023 2:13:14 GMT
Jan 26, 2023 20:25:10 GMT @hammerhead said:
Alright, if we’re going off of brain size, sperm whales should be extremely intelligent. They’re certainly not dumb, but I don’t think they’re the smartest animals, even among marine animals. They also don’t need much intelligence besides hunting giant squid and fending off killer whales.As I've been saying, it's obvious the larger animals are being unfairly punished with this, their ratio becomes poor relative to smaller animals of likely equal intelligence as their bodies reach monumental weights and their brain size can't really keep up, and apparently doesn't need to. At equal sizes brain weight to body weight ratio checks out as a fairly consistently good gauge of intelligence. Things get skewed with massive animals getting worse ratios the bigger they get while apparently retaining intelligence.
Given this, the sperm whale's ratio should actually be much worse than the t-rex, since it's five times larger, but it's much better, making it fairly undeniable it has a more powerful brain. Elephants are about equal in size to t-rex, and have a brain 5 times the size, with a 1/1100 ratio, strongly suggesting they too are much more intelligent.
There may be some density of neurons with T-rex maybe, but I don't think it's going to be able to overcome these massive size differences.
