Brain size predicts foraging and escaping abilities in the paddy frogs.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- CHEN, Chuan; SHAO, Weijie; ZHU, Xin; YANG, Yuejun; JIANG, Ying; LIAO, Wenbo
- Source
- Integrative Zoology. Sep2023, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p958-961. 4p.
- Subject
- *SIZE of brain
*REWARD (Psychology)
*LIFE sciences
*SOCIAL structure
*FROGS
*BODY size
- Language
- ISSN
- 1749-4869
Artificial selection on relative brain size in the guppy reveals costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain. The three experiments revealed that successful individuals with spatial learning and escaping had relatively larger brains than unsuccessful ones in three species of the paddy frogs. [Extracted from the article]