Human brains compared to other animals

An elephant's brain is four times heavier than a human's. But as a percentage of its body mass it ranks at the bottom.

Produced by Ruchika Agarwal
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[docemitbrown]

I know this is educational and all, But it would've been so funny to add a flat Earth persons brain and made it small like 0.21KG lol

[puroboludeo]

All of these comments talking about language like that's the only thing we can do that animals can't. Yeah, self consciousness, critical thought and other complex cognitive functions, they don't matter at all!!

[kriskan]

Plot twist :
Brain is the most important part of body according to Brain -_-

[lPelado]

This also means: We have better high cognitive performance, but maybe an elephant has such inimaginable ways to feel and experience an emotional world.

The day we'll be able to communicate with them good enought to feel their counsciousness, it will be so interesting to understand their view of the world.

[apg]

A larger brain doesn't always make you smarter..

[wahyupriadi]

0:11 as a Javanese, I'm triggered

[ManintheArmor]

Our success is the result of a combination of adaptations, rather than specialization in any single one.

Like ants and bees, we can communicate fairly effectively with large groups and sustain social cohesion. Like our cousins as well as rodents and cephalopods, we use our appendages to manipulate and rebuild the environment. Like elephants, and other large brained mammals, we have good memory capacity. Like a tortoise, we live long lives. Like birds, we stand on two legs, freeing our upper limbs for other tasks. Like a horse, we can travel great distances.

We are much like the platypus, in that we are a number of specialized adaptations stitched together to create an extremely well-rounded animal. Our brains alone aren't anything special.

[TechTusiast]

Weight means nothing. How many cells and how they interact is everything. Comparing weights is useless.

[ronaldarias]

charts went by too damn fast slow it down

[stuudude]

These brains are very sensitive!





*TOUCH IT*

[GlennGJ]

what about brain neurons relative to size?

[bestsceneseverbesthighligh]

Orcas can create a wave that can kill a fish but we spend the whole day trying to catch a fish😂😂😂

[ashwadhwani]

The shrew, the first placental mammal has 10% brain to body weight. Why was the mammalian evolutionary ancestor excluded, considering it still survives to this day???

[SupaPoopaScoopa]

would have loved to see a comparison to some of the smarter animals like Orcas and Dolphins

[MrJoeljimenez]

Albert Einstein can beat the crap out of the comp!

[docnathan]

Elephant be like

*Yeah this is big brain time*

[GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

Human success is entirely because of complex language combined with the physical ability to manipulate tools. Quite simply, no other animal on the planet is built to handle tools in a complex manner, and the fact that we have that combined with the ability to pass that information down to our children with large brains and complex language. Brain size and neurons matter, but they are not the primary reasons. Fact is that the number of neurons doesn't matter because brain development is a subtractive process. We gain when we shed unnecessary and useless connections and only keep the ones the brain uses repeatedly. This is why you learn less as you age, because the useful connections are already established and a lot of other connections are shed in favor of them.

[EnderSpino]

Scientists: Humans are the smartest

Humans: _How To Make Paper Airplane_

[JeansZi]

I was wondering if a human had an Elephant's brain swapped, how smart is he?

[mrfloppy]

If bigger brains don't make you smarter... what if cats and dogs are smarter than us? I mean come to think of it. They get free housing, free food, free medical exams, free massages, while they just lie around all day and humans do all the work :P