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Yes, whales have a bigger brain, but not in relation to their boddy mass. They are also animals with considerable intelligence, although not as much as those of the Delfinoid family, such as Dolphins and Orcas, whose brains in relation to their body mass is much higher and also much more complex.
Yeah, we tend to underestimate the intelligence of other animals and use anthropocentric perspective when thinking about intelligence.
Agree, even animals where we say that thay don't have inteligence, they have more than the people think.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=UDtlvZGmHYk
Oh yeah Portia is amazing. This is a great article about its cognition from Peter Watts.