Guinea pigs not 'dumbed down' by domestication
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 07:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Despite reductions in brain size, domestication has not reduced the ability of guinea pigs to navigate a water maze. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology tested domesticated and wild animals ('cavies') and found that they both performed well at the test, with the domestic animals actually being slightly superior...