Question

What is the role of the brain in helping an animal interact with its environment?

Answer 1

Answer:

The nature of the environment and the animal's interaction with it determines much of the character of the brain.

Explanation:

In fact, most of what we would use to describe ourselves to others reflects this sort of information storage.   Much of this information is unique to the individual and hence may involve different mechanisms from those used for species-typical information storage.