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Light enough to travel: migratory bats have smaller brains, but not larger hippocampi, than sedentary species
Migratory bird species have smaller brains than non-migratory species. The behavioural flexibility/migratory precursor hypothesis suggests that sedentary birds have larger brains to allow the behavioural flexibility required in a seasonally variable habitat. The energy trade-off hypothesis proposes...
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The Royal Society
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3061165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20880862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0744 |