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Outsmarting Extinction

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Big-brained birds more likely to cope with global warming and other challenges

By Robin Meadows
April-June 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 2)

D. Sol et al. 2007. Big-brained birds survive better in nature. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274(1611):763-769.


Brains may matter more than brawn in the animal world. New research shows that birds having relatively big brains are also more likely to survive in the wild. "Large-brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as global warming and habitat destruction," say Daniel Sol of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and three coauthors in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The researchers compared the brain-to-body mass and



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