Island Foxes Boast Bigger Brains Than Mainland Cousins

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Article URL: http://plos.io/4m6uyhk

Article title: Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges "Island Syndrome" and suggests little evidence of domestication

Author countries: U.S.

Funding: Funding for this project and Kimberly's PhD research was provided by Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California; the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Offield Family Foundation; and the USC Women in Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

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