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Letter: Pushy males and brainy females' survival

Published 25 January 2017

From Warner Haldane, Whakatane, New Zealand

Female mosquito fish grow bigger brains to help avoid the rough attentions of over-endowed males (17/24/31 December 2016, p 12). A few pages later you report brainy female wild red deer living longer and producing more offspring (p 15). Could there be a connection here? Time for the cervidologists to get out their measuring tapes, but not during the rut, I think.

Issue no. 3110 published 28 January 2017

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