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The Intelligence of Cats
Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates.
Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com |
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"javawizard" wrote in message oups.com... Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com Although I love cats, I would have a great deal of trouble believing that they were more intelligent than dolphins, or several other non-primates......I will say this, however....Their aloof personalities sucker people into thinking they are a lot more intelligent than they actually are.....IOW, they sure can act intelligent.....:^) |
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javawizard wrote:
Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com CROSSPOSTING SNIPPED I didn't look at this link because I have NO idea who this person is and I don't click on links posted by people I don't know. I, for one, don't welcome another influx of crossposted posts degenerating into flame wars such as we experienced a year or three ago. Just IMHO. Please, if you wish to reply, reply only to the group(s) you wish to reply to, not all of them at one fell swoop. Thank you Anyway, I took some of the 'pin money' I got for my birthday and brought home fish & chips for dinner last night. In the southern U.S. that also means hush puppies come with the meal. Knowing how much Persia loves anything made with cornmeal, I broke my rule about giving her anything other than her r/x food and broke off a tiny piece of my hush puppy and gave it to her. She honestly smiled at me! Although, I think she would have preferred to sneak it off my plate herself. Jill |
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jmcquown wrote:
javawizard wrote: Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com CROSSPOSTING SNIPPED I didn't look at this link because I have NO idea who this person is and I don't click on links posted by people I don't know. He's a spammer trying to get people to visit his site, I wouldn't click on either. I killfiled him weeks ago. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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"jmcquown" wrote in
: ..... brought home fish & chips for dinner last night. In the southern U.S. that also means hush puppies come with the meal. Knowing how much Persia loves anything made with cornmeal, I broke my rule about giving her anything other than her r/x food and broke off a tiny piece of my hush puppy and gave it to her. She honestly smiled at me! ..... Jill I don't blame her one bit! Yum! Andy ps: a bit of tarter sauce for dipping all three would not be bad. |
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On Friday 27 July 2007 16:28, William Graham wrote:
"javawizard" wrote in message oups.com... Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com Although I love cats, I would have a great deal of trouble believing that they were more intelligent than dolphins, or several other non-primates......I will say this, however....Their aloof personalities sucker people into thinking they are a lot more intelligent than they actually are.....IOW, they sure can act intelligent.....:^) All cetaceans have very large and highly developed brains. If we were to judge by the brain morphology alone, we would have a great deal of trouble believing that humans were more intelligent than dolphins, or any cetacean for that matter. The ratio of brain weight to body weight can be misleading. What's important is the number of muscles controlled and the sensory information processed, not the size of those muscles or sensors. The part of the brain that deals with body control must be evaluated according to the amount if information to be processed. Controlling one muscle to contract or not takes the same brain power whether it is a large muscle or a small muscle, so the relationship between brain size and body size should not be expected to be linear. The brain power required to operate an elephant's trunk, however, would be more than that used to operate a human arm, because of the complexity of the muscles that drive it. All the areas of a human brain that relate to conscious thought can be seen to be more highly developed in the caetacean. What we can say about cats is that they appear to make very good use of the the brains they have. We should all know that cats know how to love, of course and they deal with a lot more sensory data that we humans get served to our brains. A cat's intelligence is ideally suited to being a cat, and they're all smarter than George Bush! (;-)) But then again, who isn't? -- Regards, Fred |
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an he diddnt stutter! Go Fred!
"Fred Williams" wrote in message ... On Friday 27 July 2007 16:28, William Graham wrote: "javawizard" wrote in message oups.com... Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com Although I love cats, I would have a great deal of trouble believing that they were more intelligent than dolphins, or several other non-primates......I will say this, however....Their aloof personalities sucker people into thinking they are a lot more intelligent than they actually are.....IOW, they sure can act intelligent.....:^) All cetaceans have very large and highly developed brains. If we were to judge by the brain morphology alone, we would have a great deal of trouble believing that humans were more intelligent than dolphins, or any cetacean for that matter. The ratio of brain weight to body weight can be misleading. What's important is the number of muscles controlled and the sensory information processed, not the size of those muscles or sensors. The part of the brain that deals with body control must be evaluated according to the amount if information to be processed. Controlling one muscle to contract or not takes the same brain power whether it is a large muscle or a small muscle, so the relationship between brain size and body size should not be expected to be linear. The brain power required to operate an elephant's trunk, however, would be more than that used to operate a human arm, because of the complexity of the muscles that drive it. All the areas of a human brain that relate to conscious thought can be seen to be more highly developed in the caetacean. What we can say about cats is that they appear to make very good use of the the brains they have. We should all know that cats know how to love, of course and they deal with a lot more sensory data that we humans get served to our brains. A cat's intelligence is ideally suited to being a cat, and they're all smarter than George Bush! (;-)) But then again, who isn't? -- Regards, Fred |
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Fred Williams = ****wit
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You iz sure smurt fura hooman Tiger
Fred Williams wrote in message ... On Friday 27 July 2007 16:28, William Graham wrote: "javawizard" wrote in message oups.com... Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com Although I love cats, I would have a great deal of trouble believing that they were more intelligent than dolphins, or several other non-primates......I will say this, however....Their aloof personalities sucker people into thinking they are a lot more intelligent than they actually are.....IOW, they sure can act intelligent.....:^) All cetaceans have very large and highly developed brains. If we were to judge by the brain morphology alone, we would have a great deal of trouble believing that humans were more intelligent than dolphins, or any cetacean for that matter. The ratio of brain weight to body weight can be misleading. What's important is the number of muscles controlled and the sensory information processed, not the size of those muscles or sensors. The part of the brain that deals with body control must be evaluated according to the amount if information to be processed. Controlling one muscle to contract or not takes the same brain power whether it is a large muscle or a small muscle, so the relationship between brain size and body size should not be expected to be linear. The brain power required to operate an elephant's trunk, however, would be more than that used to operate a human arm, because of the complexity of the muscles that drive it. All the areas of a human brain that relate to conscious thought can be seen to be more highly developed in the caetacean. What we can say about cats is that they appear to make very good use of the the brains they have. We should all know that cats know how to love, of course and they deal with a lot more sensory data that we humans get served to our brains. A cat's intelligence is ideally suited to being a cat, and they're all smarter than George Bush! (;-)) But then again, who isn't? -- Regards, Fred |
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javawizard wrote:
Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats' brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight. - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com One of the differences between a human being and a cat is that a cat knows everything a cat needs to know. Bud |
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