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.
  >>
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.