Amy Sterling

Blog · March 8, 2021

Enter the Brain Zoo

Zoo Brains is an exhibit in Boston, MA, at Zoo New England, produced by the citizen science project Eyewire of Princeton University's Seung Lab in partnership with illustration students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

It invites visitors to venture into the brains of animals with a poster series that highlights the uniqueness of a dozen species at Franklin Park Zoo. Check out a few of the posters below.

Zoo Brains poster: gorillas have more neurons than any animal other than humans Zoo Brains poster: sloths sleep 10 to 16 hours per day Zoo Brains poster: anacondas have a unique part of the brain that lets them see in infrared Zoo Brains poster: a giraffe has neurons that are longer than you Zoo Brains poster: honey bees use the waggle dance to communicate the location of flowers Zoo Brains poster: ostriches' eyes are bigger than their brains Zoo Brains poster: if a rodent had 86 billion neurons like you, its brain would weigh 99 pounds

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