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?
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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?
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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. :^)
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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.
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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.
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
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Now I understand why I can't fly.
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And how, no matter how or where I drive, a bird can always hit my windshield with a dropping.
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It's that brain ratio. They're smarter than us.
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