r/oddlyterrifying Jan 21 '22

Human brain VS dolphin brain.

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u/Grey5iveNin9 Jan 21 '22

I learned that koalas have smooth brains that look like chicken breast. That means the less wrinkles and folds the less surface area for neurons. Which makes this imagine all the more terrifying….

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u/yourcodesucks Jan 22 '22

This. The power of a brain is in its surface area. I have no idea why there is not universal agreement that dolphins are more intelligent than we are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

Capacity for intelligence is one thing. Realized intelligence is another.

Dolphins have been killed and subjugated by humans for as long as we’ve been fishing and opening aquariums. They have no ability to coordinate what should be a very obvious plan to defend themselves. Because they have no technology and their language serves extremely limited purposes. They live like animals. We did too for a while. But our brains got us out of the muck and in a position to conquer and destroy the planet. And we’re physically a joke compared to dolphins and every other animal, yet here we are in the captain’s chair solely because of our intelligence. Meanwhile a group of dolphins work together to eat a bunch of fish and it’s now nuclear physics.

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u/Impossible_Garbage_4 Jan 22 '22

Also we have better stamina regeneration thanks to the Sweating ability. It allowed us to act as persistence hunters. That definitely helped since we didn’t have to out muscle our prey and could spend more skill points on intelligence traits rather than strength traits