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An elephant brain weighs around 5 kg (11 lb), which is about four times the size of a human brain and the heaviest of any terrestrial animal. It has about 257 billion neurons , which is about three times the amount of neurons as a human brain.
Plant intelligence is a field of plant biology which aims to understand how plants process the information they obtain from their environment. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Plant intelligence has been defined as "any type of intentional and flexible behavior that is beneficial and enables the organism to achieve its goal".
A lot of research about elephant reproductive physiology and estrus cycles has been conducted in captivity and a greater understanding of how these factors play into breeding attempts can be established. [38] Behavioral research quantifies the effects of how estrus plays a role in the herds behaviors and how this effects the bulls of a herd. [39]
Joyce Hatheway Poole (born 1 May 1956) is a biologist, ethologist, conservationist, and co-founder/scientific director of ElephantVoices. [1] She is a world authority on elephant reproductive, communicative, and cognitive behavior.
Animal ability to process and respond to stimuli is correlated with brain size. Small-brain animals tend to show simple behaviors that are less dependent on learning than those of large-brained animals. Vertebrates, particularly mammals, have larger brains and complex behavior that changes with experience.
An elephant painting A temple elephant being washed at a Hindu temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Elephant from Wirth's Circus in a Sydney street parade (1938). Elephants have the largest brains of all land animals, and ever since the time of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, [13] have been renowned for their cognitive skills, with behavioural patterns shared with humans.
Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite talks about the "Blackfish effect" 10 years later, how SeaWorld gave her a metaphorical "gift basket" and what she hopes will still change.
Magpies are corvids, a very intelligent family of birds. One magpie had obviously been hit by a car and was laying dead on the side of the road. The four other magpies were standing around him. One approached the corpse, gently pecked at it-just as an elephant noses the carcass of another elephant- and stepped back. Another magpie did the same ...