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...their brains are SO BIG.
Well, bigger than meadow voles. In some areas. And what does it mean? Well, it might not be because they're gettin' more action. Sci is over at Neurotic Physiology today talking about a paper on brain size in voles and mice as a function of their mating systems. Head over and check it out!