Re: Why are mice smarter than me.

Interestingly, mice and humans have almost identical body weight / brain weight rations ( both ratios are 1/40) That is, our brain weights about 1/40th of our total weight...and the brains of mice also weigh about 1/40th of their total weight. However, mice are so much smaller than humans that their brains are relatively tiny.

I am not aware of any intelligence tests that are run with both humans and mice - but we have often used mazes with food at the end to test the learning abilities of mice. Humans have also encountered mazes, and solve and escape complex mazes - but no mouse yet has successfully completed common human intelligence tests such as our IQ tests.

There are few things that a mouse could learn to do, that you could not learn to do as well. But there are many things you can learn to do - multiplication, building a playhouse, winning in a computer game - that a mouse would be unable to learn to do.

In terms of intelligence, you leave mice in the dust!