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SoT 113: A Brain The Size Of A Pea

Aug 07, 201333 min
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Episode description

It was thought that the many eyes on a peacock's tail feathers were what impressed peahens. But a new - and really cool! - study suggests that when it comes to wooing peahens, size does matter. It's not the number of the eyes, but the width of the tail.

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