Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-226878-20150626030257

LiveandSound wrote:

You just missed his point: Size=Inteligence. The bigger the smarter. If Nevermores grow bigger than Ursai, they are smarter than Ursai. That's his point. Size does NOT equal intelligence. Age equals intelligence. It also happens to equal size. But as the age old equation goes, while A = B and B = C, A does not necessarily equal C. We don't know how fast Grimm grow in relation to their age. We know that bigger Grimm are more powerful and are likely smarter than smaller Grimm, but by how much has yet to be determined.

World of Remnant excerpt: Although the Creatures of Grimm appear mindless, ''older Grimm, who have managed to survive their battles, have the tendency to learn from their experience and will exercise caution in the future. This perverse form of self-preservation allows the creatures to become more effective killers.''

From Search and Destroy:

[begin]

Oobleck: I'm afraid your sniper rifle will do nothing more than agitate a Grimm of that size.

Ruby: But... What if it attacks us?

Oobleck: Fret not, Ruby; those Goliaths are not concerned with us. Ruby, not every Grimm is mindless, or rather not every Grimm is still mindless. You see, the Grimm you see before you are so powerful, so superior to the Grimm you fought, that they've undoubtedly lived hundreds of years, and in that time between killing humans and attacking our borders, they have done one important thing: They've learned. They've learned that when they attack our borders, they're likely to die, and what we lack in strength, we make up for in will, and that killing one human will only bring more.

[end]

I direct you to Oobleck's line stating that the Goliaths have doubtlessly "lived hundreds of years." Age is the factor he focuses on before stating their intelligence. Naturally, it would be expected that older Grimm would be larger and more powerful, but Oobleck does not make a direct corollation between either strength or size and the intelligence of the creature. Size and strength are corollated to each other and to age. Age is corollated to intelligence. Do you see the disconnect?