How foxes develop remarkable intelligence despite tiny brains
A fox’s brain stays smaller than a house cat’s yet delivers predator‑grade cognition. Recent work on carnivore brains points to a simple trade‑off: not volume, but how neurons are packed, wired and powered.Fox brains appear to invest heavily in cortical neuron density, cramming large numbers of neurons into a compact sheet of gray matter. That density shortens axon length, reducing conduction dela...More
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