STEM Saturday Post Promotion #23: Large neuron density in elephant brains may explain their trunk dexterity
In Elephants use a large number of neurons to control their trunk and ears, @sarahjay1 describes a recent research finding that elephants have a larger number of neurons than other mammals, when adjusted for brain size. Click through to learn more about it.
Welcome to our 23nd STEM Saturday post promotion on the Steem blockchain. In celebration of the occasion, I have once again promoted a Popular STEM post to the top of the /promoted list.
Pixabay license from Anja-#pray for ukraine# #helping hands# stop the war at source.
This marks the twenty-third consecutive Saturday that our community has held the top of the /promoted page.
As previously announced, the promoted post will be pinned in our community, and it will remain pinned until payout time or until it drops out of the top-2 promoted posts for our community.
The Post
This week's promoted post is Elephants use a large number of neurons to control their trunk and ears from @sarahjay1.
As with prior weeks, the post was passed through three separate online plagiarism checks before promotion.
Here is the post at the top of /promoted:
Promotion Cost
In order to promote the post, I burned 0.10 SBD (equivalent to about 0.426 STEEM) by sending it to @null with the memo field set to: @sarahjay1/elephants-use-a-lot-of-neurons-to-control-their-trunk-and-ears.
The Community
The Popular STEM community is intended to be a place for accessible STEM conversations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). If you have an interest in STEM topics, please come join us!
About STEM Saturday
If members would like to have your own STEM content considered for future promotions, please come join us and start contributing. I don't know how long I'll be continuing the tradition, but while I do, here are the minimum requirements for consideration (subject to change without notice ;-).
- Original, plagiarism-free content
- Minimum word count: currently 300 words, but this may be adjusted.
- The content must not be cross-posted on other web sites or blockchains. Correct use of the #steemexclusive tag is encouraged.
- English language. (sorry, it's the only one I know)
- Because a post leaves /promoted at payout time, posts created shortly before STEM Saturday may be more likely to be chosen than older posts.
All community members are invited to create original and exclusive content that can be considered for future promotions.
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Pixabay license, source
Reminder
Visit the /promoted page and #burnsteem25 to support the inflation-fighters who are helping to enable decentralized regulation of Steem token supply growth.
A decent article about elephants! You can talk a lot about them, they are multifaceted and amazing. Thank you for choosing such a high-quality post and promoting it.
What a funny post. I didn't know that different elephant species have different amounts of neuron. Thank you for promoting a useful article!
Congratulations to @sarahjay1
You've got a free upvote from witness fuli.
Peace & Love!
Is there any way to contact you via Discord @remlaps?
Maybe you could add me? ( crypto.piotr#3426 ) or simply join our community server and I will greet you there: https://discord.gg/uWMJTaW
Cheers,
Piotr
Hi, I have a discord account and just joined your server and sent you a friend request. I don't sign in to discord very often, though, so if you contact me there you might want to let me know to look for a message.
I think this was probably the first time I signed into discord since 2020.
Hi @remlaps
OMG. This is nuts.
What is the best way to keep in touch with you? Telegram maybe?
ps. I wrote to you via Discord already. I hope to be able to establish communication channel between us.
Cheers, Piotr