{"id":6379,"date":"2018-11-07T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:33:25","slug":"shoreline-dwelling-sunfish-boast-bigger-brains-than-open-water-kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/shoreline-dwelling-sunfish-boast-bigger-brains-than-open-water-kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoreline-dwelling sunfish boast bigger brains than open-water kin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a>
\nPublished\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a017:01 ET <\/strong>(Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)
\nJust as people find different contexts more or less cognitively challenging, different environments can be more or less challenging for animals. Individuals with greater cognitive abilities tend to have bigger brains. Sunfish individuals that live in the complex shallow-water habitat of lakes have eight per cent larger brains than those living in the simpler open-water habitat. This demonstrates that, even within a species, environment can affect brain size in ways that may reflect fish individuals\u2019 smarts.<\/p>\n

Lead author: <\/strong>Caleb Axelrod, University of Guelph\u00a0–\u00a0caxelrod@uoguelph.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a017:01 ET (Brief from the Royal Society) Just as people find different contexts more or less cognitively challenging, different environments can be more or less challenging for animals. Individuals with greater cognitive abilities tend to have bigger brains. Sunfish individuals that live in the complex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ET","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}