Sentences with phrase «small relative brain sizes»
This may explain why, for example, birds with small relative brain sizes, such as pheasants, find it harder to avoid a moving car than those with larger brain size, such as magpies.
https://phys.org/ Not exact matches
They found that the bigger a primate's brain relative to the species's overall body size, the smaller the guts tend to be.
«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»
They found that birds with larger brains relative to their body size survived better in nature than birds with small brains.
But if you're comparing brain size relative to body size, as the breed's body size gets smaller, dog brain size doesn't necessarily shrink in exact proportion.