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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic heart rate | Shrew | 500-1320 | beats per minute | 101519 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Comparative cellular composition of the brain of the tree shrew and six primate species | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 110871 | Herculano-Houzel S, Collins... |
| Brain weight of Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) and sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) | Mammals | Sorex minutus 0.25: Physeter macrocephalus 9,000 | grams | 115167 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |
| Body temperature | Mammals | 30-42 | °C | 100925 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Volume of brain | Bee Apis mellifera | ~1 | mm^3 | 109327 | Menzel R, Giurfa M. Cognitive... |
| Characteristic heart rate | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 235 | beats per minute | 101517 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Characteristic heart rate | Human Homo sapiens | 60-90 | beats per minute | 101516 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Percent that DNA makes of the sperm head volume | Mammals | ~20 | % | 109401 | van Munster EB, Stap J... |
| Expected values for a generic rodent and primate brains of 1.5 kg, and values observed for the human brain | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 109330 | Herculano-Houzel S. The... |
| Predicted cellular composition of whale and elephant brains if they scaled according to rodent or primate cellular scaling rules | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 109331 | Herculano-Houzel S. The... |
| Relative brain size and nu. of neurons in brain of mouse, monkey and human | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 106134 | Fish JL, Dehay C, Kennedy H... |
| Surface area of (1.3 kg) brain | Human Homo sapiens | ~20 | m^2 | 117111 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Brain weight, encephalization quotient and number of cortical neurons in selected mammals | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 106135 | Roth G, Dicke U. Evolution... |
| Increase in brain weight from birth to full maturity | Rodent | rat ~600%: guinea pig ~60% | % | 117229 | Josselyn SA, Frankland... |
| Cellular composition of primate brains | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 110872 | Herculano-Houzel S, Collins... |
| Weight span in Ratites | Birds | kiwi 1kg: ostrich 130kg | kg | 113077 | Dennis M. Power, Current... |
| Time for auditory and visual stimuli to reach the brain | Mammals | auditory stimulus 8-10msec: visual stimulus 20-40msec | msec | 110801 | [1] Kemp, B. J. 1973.... |
| Comparative cellular composition of the brains of six rodent species | Rodent | Table- link | N/A | 110876 | Herculano-Houzel S, Mota B... |
| Fraction of cerebellum out of brain by volume [largest volume fraction of the cerebellum of all mammals] | African Elephant Loxodonta africana | ~30 | % | 115168 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |
| Cellular composition of rodent brains | Rodent | Table- link | N/A | 110877 | Herculano-Houzel S, Mota B... |