Mouse brains keyed to speed
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- Its hard to be a mouse. Youre a social animal, but your fellows are small and scattered. Youre a snack to a bestiary of fast, eagle-eyed predators, not least the eagle. Youre fast too, but your spatial vision is poor around 20/200. So whats a mouse to do?