Of the average adult human, camel or killer whale, the one with the largest brain
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J! Archive - Show #5003, aired 2006-05-17  May 17, 2006 ... The CDC reports that there are about 300,000 of these mild brain ... Of the average adult human, camel or killer whale, the one with the largest...
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Sperm Whales, Sperm Whale Pictures, Sperm Whale Facts ...  They have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth. Their heads also hold large ... These toothed whales eat thousands of pounds of fish and squidabout one ton (907 kg) per day. ... Prairie Dogs Are Serial Killers That Murder Their Competition  What'd You ... Arabian (Dromedary) Camel  Arctic Fox.
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Killer Whales (Orcas), Killer Whale Pictures, Killer Whale Facts ...  Status: Data deficient; Type: Mammal; Diet: Carnivore; Average life span in the wild: 50 to 80 years; Size: 23 to 32 ft (7 to ... Orcas, or killer whales, are the largest of the dolphins and one of the world's most powerful predators. ... Killer whales have never been extensively hunted by humans. .... Arabian (Dromedary) Camel.
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69 Interesting Facts about the Human Brain - Random Facts  Dec 14, 2011 ... Random Human Brain facts, including amazing statistics, history, ... watts).g; Adults have between 125-150 ml of cerebrospinal fluid. ... The average length of a spinal cord is about 19 inches (45 cm).a .... The sperm whale has the largest brain of all animals, weighing up to 20 pounds. ... Killer Whale, 5,620.
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Brain Facts and Figures  Pithecanthropus Man, 850 - 1,000, camel, 762. giraffe, 680 ... Blinkov, S.M. and Glezer, I.I. The Human Brain in Figures and Tables. ... Average number of neocortical glial cells (young adults ) = 39 billion (Pakkenberg et al., 1997; 2003) Average ... Total surface area of the cerebral cortex (false killer whale) = 7,400 cm2
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The elephant: the largest living land animal | The Brain Bank North ...  Mar 31, 2014 ... Perhaps even more fascinating is how an animal of this size, living ... As with their skull, elephants have the largest ears in the animal kingdom.
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Ask a Neuroscientist: Does a bigger brain make you smarter ...  May 24, 2014 ... I just learned recently that some humans have larger brains than others. ... humans and between different species, has never been particularly well-defined. ... size, or at least that we have the largest brains relative to our body size. As nature would have it, both of these common assumptions are incorrect.
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Biggest Whales In The World - Monster lists - Monsters and Critics  Mar 21, 2015 ... Whaling has got so bad over recent decades that the two largest whales in the ... Narwhal whale, one of the biggest whales in the world ... However, both canines grow to full length in around 1 in 500 males. ... 9 Beluga Whale ... and they are getting increasingly scarce with only 24,000 left in the world.
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Marine Mammals  Whales. Whales are the largest marine mammals. They belong to the group of ... The name " cetacea " Cetus is Latin (= large sea animal) and Ketos is from...
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KILLER WHALES (Orcinus orca) - Adaptations for an Aquatic ...  One of these whales, a juvenile, twice dove to a depth of more than 228 m (748 ft.) ... A killer whale breathes through a single blowhole on top of its head. ... Killer whales appear to have a metabolic rate equal to what would be expected for ... Several species of cetaceans, including the bottlenose dolphin and beluga whales,...
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Killer whale - Wikipedia  The killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. ... They have been known to attack baleen whale calves, and even adult whales. ..... Killer whales have also been observed preying on terrestrial mammals, such as deer swimming between...
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Whale species | Whale facts | Wild About Whales | NSW National ...  They belong to the order of animals called Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. You can see ... It also includes the smallest of the cetaceans, the porpoise, and one of the largest, the sperm whale, as well as the largest type of dolphin, the orca which is also known as the killer whale. ... Humpback baleen.
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Cetaceans  They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale; the ... Modern whales may be divided into two subgroups: the Odontoceti (toothed ... Their teeth, like those of most land mammals, still show differentiation into several types. ... in the earliest archaeocetes, these limbs and the pelvis were attached to the...
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THE NAKED APE  THE NAKED APE by. Desmond Morris ... biggest brain of all the primates, but attempts to conceal the fact that he also has the biggest ... I am a zoologist and the naked ape is an animal. ... The naked ape is essentially an exploratory species and any society that has failed to ...... Put very simply, it is a process called neoteny)...
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Human Brain Facts and Answers - Disabled World  Questions answers and facts relating to the human brain and the study of the brain organ and spinal ... The biggest part of the brain is the cerebrum which makes up 85% of the brain's weight. ... Unmyelinated axons only transmit at about 1 meter per second. ... The brain is an organ as it controls the functions of the body.
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The Story of the Weeping Camel--National Geographic World Films ...  Religion: An "Ocean Of Wisdom" for a Landlocked People ... Some 96 percent of Mongolians practice Lamaism (Buddhism presided over by the Dalai Lama),...
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Top Ten longest living or oldest animals | OneKind  The largest surviving land-animals have an average lifespan of up to 70 ... The largest living species of tortoise that can survive well past a hundred, with the ... hundreds of genetically identical jellyfish - near perfect copies of the original adult.
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Whales - Whale facts and information - WDC  The tongue alone of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant and an entire ... The sperm whale's huge head, which is up to a third of its overall body length, ... Beluga whales are known as the "canaries of the sea" because they make ... Male humpback whales sing the most complex songs and have long, varied,...
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Structure and Function of the White Shark Brain  Since large animals tend to have larger brains than small animals, a more .... been thought that some 70% of the shark brain is dedicated to the sense of smell.
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Marine Life in Alaska - Alaska Cruises  As the largest sea lions, males can reach eleven feet in length and weigh up to 2,200 ... The giant Pacific octopus is one of the largest species of octopods.
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Largest Eye in the World, Giant Squid | Smithsonian Ocean Portal  Giant squid have the largest eye in the animal kingdom. At up to 10 inches in diameter, people often describe it as the size of a dinner plate -- or, in other words,...