Brain size area in women, corresponding to spatial versus language specializations. Small studies have attempted to link brain volume with functional measures such as P300 auditory evoked potentials but finding no association. Studies attempting to related sibling differences in IQ to differences in brain volume are hampered by relatively small sample sizes and the noisy nature of such difference scores, yielding weak evidence for cross-trait cross-sib correlations. The largest brain is that of the sperm whale, weighing about , and killer whales, weighing about . An elephant's brain weighs just over and a bottlenose dolphin's . Brain size tends to vary according
Whale shark Whale shark The whale shark ("Rhincodon typus") is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of about . The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. Before 1984 it was classified as "Rhiniodon" into Rhinodontidae. The whale shark is found in open