Mental arithmetics with lemurs

The great blue whale has only a small brain relating to his body height: It covers only 0.01 per cent of its body mass. On the other hand, the brain of a shrew mouse covers 10 per cent of its mass. But makes a large brain particularly clever? At the DPZ in Göttingen biologists investigates this question. They explore how intelligent lemurs are.

Read or listen to the radio feature of Carmen Woisczyk on SWR „Die Durchblicker“ (in German)