This article talks about cetacean intelligence. Dolphin's have a large cortical area than us primate brained. I'm not up on the latest research about how less functionally intelligent they are; guess they could be functionally more intelligent than us ... enough that they are intelligent enough to know not to let us know how intelligent they are?
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No idea of the number of connections.
i remember reading once that it was more than all the telephone switchboards and private lines in NYC! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
