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| | Discovery Channel :: News - Animals :: Pea-Brains Make Best Prey, Study Finds |
 | | While there has been a consistent increase in relative brain size, and therefore intelligence, over most mammal groups throughout evolutionary time, predator-prey relationships have led to an intelligence divide, said lead researcher Susanne Shultz. |
 | | The predators, which included leopards, chimpanzees, jaguars, pumas and other animals, were found to most often go for tinier brained prey, such as the small antelope, mongooses and the red river hog. |
 | | When the scientists ran all of the data through several statistical tests, they determined relative brain size was the most important predictor of biases in predator diets. |
| dsc.discovery.com /news/2006/08/18/prey_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20060818123000 (349 words) |
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