Way Off facts · 🦁 Animals
How many neurons are in an elephant's brain?
257 billion
neurons
257,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Three times as many as you have — 97% of them in the cerebellum, running that trunk.SOURCEHerculano-Houzel, 2014
Scale check: 257 billion is roughly seconds in 3,000 years.
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