Brain Size

[Tom Bender]

A cow has a brain 400 times the size of a mouse's brain. They don't seem 400 times as smart. What's going on there?

[Jim Koepke]

A cow has a brain 400 times the size of a mouse's brain. They don't seem 400 times as smart. What's going on there?

Any woman will tell you, "it isn't what you've got, it's how you use it."

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[Doug Dawson]

A cow has a brain 400 times the size of a mouse's brain. They don't seem 400 times as smart. What's going on there?

Cows are very social animals. That's what they use their brains for. They may not talk to you. It's only because they don't think you're very interesting. :^)

[Tom M King]

There's a lot more data to process, and regulate in a cow's body, than a mouse's. All that doesn't have much to do with reasoning ability. Even the part about regulating the rechewing of that volume of food is probably way more than a mouse brain is capable of.

[Edward Dyas]

Maybe not all of them. One day I saw a local rancher loading cows for market but one was running faster than I've ever seen a cow move in the opposite direction.

[Lee Schierer]

Actually, a mouse has a brain size to body size Encephalization quotient the same as a human.
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[Michael Weber]

Actually, a mouse has a brain size to body size Encephalization quotient the same as a human.
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That explains a lot :rolleyes:

[Tom M King]

Actually, a mouse has a brain size to body size Encephalization quotient the same as a human.
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Now I understand why I can't fly.

[Derek Meyer]

Now I understand why I can't fly.

And how, no matter how or where I drive, a bird can always hit my windshield with a dropping.

[Tom M King]

It's that brain ratio. They're smarter than us.