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Reminder: WHALES are orders of magnitude higher IQ than us

You really think that the 10kg brains of sperm whales are le...
aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national
  06/03/26
I'm guessing if you had to calculate a SPERM WHALE'S "I...
aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national
  06/03/26
aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours
racy lilac office
  06/03/26
some of the smaller dolphins and porpoises I think, but they...
aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national
  06/03/26
no, it's the brain:body size ratio that is in human's favor....
Sinister appetizing theater reading party
  06/04/26
yeah encephalization quotient has ended up being far less pr...
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the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen
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Embarrassed To The Bone Alcoholic Point
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they are also very social. even the 52-hertz whale probably ...
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aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national
  06/04/26
The 52-hertz whale has massive amounts of rizz through Myste...
aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national
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mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned
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Sounds like a poster
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The sperm whale’s eyes are so far apart that he’...
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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:38 PM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national

You really think that the 10kg brains of sperm whales are less powerful than our tiny pink 1 kg brains? LJL. We have intergenerational knowledge transfer and tool use, yes which gives us the appearance of being smarter. But I'm talking raw intellectual horsepower. And notice what human do you know that can do three dimensional navigation across massive distances, acoustic modeling of the deep ocean etc. Like they literally dive like two miles deep, ljl at human spatial skills being able to reliably do that, that's why they have IQs that are probably almost immeasurably higher than our own.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914235)



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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:39 PM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national

I'm guessing if you had to calculate a SPERM WHALE'S "IQ" it would be somewhere in the MILLIONS. Likely far higher even.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914238)



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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:40 PM
Author: racy lilac office

aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours

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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:43 PM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national

some of the smaller dolphins and porpoises I think, but they make up for it with highly folded cortices and large scale connectivity patterns

SPERM WHALES though are the real intellectual giants

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914246)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:13 AM
Author: Sinister appetizing theater reading party

no, it's the brain:body size ratio that is in human's favor. however, they have more folds, so surface area is pretty high.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914295)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national

yeah encephalization quotient has ended up being far less predictive than originally thought though. It isn't totally crazy it produces some answers in the right neighborhood. but also results in absurdities like shrews and small birds getting way too high and elephants and whales too low for their cognitive performance

a lot of the original reason for making it a metric was motivated by Ape Arrogance. We wanted to make a number that showed primate cognition was the best.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914307)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:26 AM
Author: Bull headed volcanic crater

the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen

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Date: June 5th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: Judgmental Mad Cow Disease



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: heady elite library sneaky criminal



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:16 AM
Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Alcoholic Point



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:25 AM
Author: Bull headed volcanic crater

they are also very social. even the 52-hertz whale probably has more rizz than the average poaster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914303)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:01 AM
Author: aromatic fantasy-prone hominid national

The 52-hertz whale has massive amounts of rizz through Mysterious Persona Architecture

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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:29 AM
Author: Bull headed volcanic crater

mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914317)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:18 AM
Author: olive international law enforcement agency

Sounds like a poster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914358)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:19 PM
Author: Bull headed volcanic crater



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: heady elite library sneaky criminal



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:40 AM
Author: Stirring Blathering Menage Partner



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: heady elite library sneaky criminal



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:27 AM
Author: red floppy psychic set

The sperm whale’s eyes are so far apart that he’s Multitasking his ass off, looking in 2 completely opposite directions and taking it all in. Herman Melville wrote about just this for approximately 50,000k words. This would totally overwhelm humans cognitively, as evidenced by the failure of Star Fox Zero.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2most#49914364)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 10:05 PM
Author: heady elite library sneaky criminal



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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:22 AM
Author: Bull headed volcanic crater



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Date: June 5th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: Judgmental Mad Cow Disease



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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: racy lilac office



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