• Question: How big is an elephants brain

    Asked by leeovnev7 to William, Michelle, Joanna, Jane, Fiona on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Michelle Murphy

      Michelle Murphy answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      Hi,
      Ok, I will be honest. I googled this as I didn’t have a clue. A human brain is about 2% of your weight. So if you weigh 60kg you brain weighs about 1.2kg. According to google an elephants brain 6kg (We shouldn’t trust everything on the web so this might not be true).

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Well they weight about 5 kg which is more than double the weight of the human brain!

      Elephants are thought to be highly intelligent and can be very ‘altruistic’ – this means that they help each other without thinking about the consequences for themselves.

    • Photo: William Davies

      William Davies answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      The elphant brain is the biggest of all land mammals, weighing in at about 6kg (0.08% of its body weight). That’s about 4 times the weight of a human brain

    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Elephant brains are between 3 and 5 kg in weight or so the internet told me 🙂

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