No, sorry, it's completely wrong "tldr". Instead, the author presents the first ever counting of the cells in the different parts of the elephant brain using a

No, sorry, it's completely wrong "tldr". Instead, the author presents the first ever counting of the cells in the different parts of the elephant brain using a new method, different from the previous attempts, which results in the different numbers for the different sections of the brain. The new result shows that the elephant brain has indeed more cells than the human one, but that the distribution is different. To those who don't know: cerebellum is the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates, in humans it's in the lower area of the brain. http://brainmadesimple.com/cerebellum.html http://brainmadesimple.com/cerebellum.html Look at the brains compared: http://natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic5/Images/IC5_page13.gif http://natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic5/Images/IC5_page13.gif The Cerebral Cortex of the elephant looks bigger, but, according to the author, has 5.6 billion neurons, compared to the 16 billion neurons in human's: http://brainmadesimple.com/cortex-and-lobes-of-the-brain.html http://brainmadesimple.com/cortex-and-lobes-of-the-brain.htm... This is new, as the estimates of the count of the cells of in the different parts of the brain of elephant varied before. See nickledave's post for the link to the scientific work about the the method.