Researchers find Female Ruminants' Brains are bigger than Male counterparts

Previous graduate students Nicole Lopez (lead author) and Jonathon Moore-Tupas, along with Ted Stankowich, director of the Mammal Lab, were part of a research paper featured in National Geographic. The paper, "Brain vs Brawn: Relative brain size is sexually dimorphic amongst weapon-bearing ruminants," was published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The paper found that female brains in ruminants, like deer, were larger than their male counterparts due to their development of fighting instruments like horns and tusks.