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Intelligence

Dolphins are higly intelligent mammals . There are a lot of stories claiming that they have talents that are beyond Man's understanding and which are unresearchable . Dolphins have very large and folded brains , which suggest exceptional intellectual capacity .
The brain size of a bottle - nosed dolphin is comparable to ours at birth and , during their lifetime develops well into the upper levels of the maximum size of modern man - about 1700 grams .
A dolphin's brain size increases very rapidly during youth and seems to slow down at nine years of age . This decrease is less than our slow down which occurs at our equivalent age of 17 years and afterwards .
As a brain grows in size and as a child ages , immersed in many daily language situations , both brain and language increase in complexity . The usual human brain reaches 1400 grams at 10 to 17 years of age . The levels of complex thinking at this time increase tremendously over that of beginning speech . However , recent research has shown that the amount of braincells found in dolphins is comparatively small . Scientists are coming to the conclusion that the dolphin is probably less intelligent than one thought . Humans have many more braincells and can therefore learn and think a lot quicker .