woodchurch science

a study by scott pitnick at syracuse university in new york state has discovered a link between size of brain and size of testicles. it seems that brainier bats have smaller testes and vice versa. bat testes range from 0.11% of body weight in the african yellow-winged bat, to a whacking 8.4% in the generously endowed rafinesque’s big-eared  bat.  brain size, by contrast, varies in the opposite direction! read more here

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