Carnivore Brains (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Carnivore Brains

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The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has found that dogs possess significantly more neurons than cats, raccoons have as many neurons as a primate packed into a brain the size of a cat's, and bears have the same number of neurons as a cat packed into a much larger brain.

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Jeremy Teaford, Vanderbilt University

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