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In a message dated 11/12/1999 4:01:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< No, land herbivores' brains do not have "all" the DHA required. Land
herbi=
vores have
rather small
brains which naturally contain only small amounts of DHA. For example a hi=
ppo's brain is
only .59 kg, an ox brain is only .45 kg, gorilla .40 kg, chimpanzee only .=
34 kg.
Compared to man, 1.5 kg and dophin 1.6 kg. One man's brain is 3 times the =
size of a
gorilla's, and nearly 5 times the size of a chimpanzee's, over twice the si=
ze of a hippo's
brain. The remarkable thing is the close absolute and relative size of hum=
an and dolphin
brains. The human brain is 2 per cent of body weight, the dophin is 1 pe=
rcent.
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Why don't you give the percent of weight for the first part of the paragraph
as is done in the final section? It sounds like you are arguing something
about a fixed amount of DHA being distributed in different size brains.
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