King colobus |
Sunday 27 February 2022
Leaf-eating Monkeys: Black-and-White Colobuses
Sunday 20 February 2022
Miocene (Pt 31): Terror Mice and the First Howler Monkeys
Phoberomys |
Sunday 13 February 2022
Are Animals Darker in the Tropics?
Crucially for this blog, it seemed to be true of the skin and hair of mammals as well. This observation raises a number of questions, of which the first is clearly "is it true?"
Sunday 6 February 2022
How Dolphins Got Their Large Brains
By definition, an average mammal should have an EQ of 1. The formula breaks if we try to apply it to non-mammalian animals, such as birds, probably because their brain architecture is different from ours at quite a fundamental level. Even for mammals, there is some debate as to exactly what formula we should be using; most older studies have determined that brain size typically rises as the 2/3 power of body size (that is, as the cube root of the square) but a 2019 study argued that it's perhaps more accurate to base it on the 3/4 power and this seems to be a growing consensus.