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Wasps: Bigger Brains Are Better For Social Cognition

One of the main questions for a long time now in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience has been whether or not overall brain size or the size of specific areas of the brain leads to greater cognitive abilities in animals. There has been a buzz around wasp brains for some time now and it looks like with good cause. Recent findings from the University of Washington have shown that wasps with bigger bodies, who have bigger brains devote more of their time and resources to tissues in the brain that coordinate complex social interactions such as learning memory and other social behaviours. The researchers now hope to test the hypothesis that largeer brained creatures compared to their body mass, will have more enhanced cognitive behaviours when compared with smaller brained animals. So the next time someone criticises a wasp and questions the essence of their existence you can validate it by telling them that they make for great socialisers. 

Monkeys to get a Mercedes or Will Ferrell?

At Longleat the monkeys have a little spare cash to splash. Serendipity, the youngest of the monkey posse and editor of this promotional video to bring about a greater awareness of middle class monkey's excessive and lavish spending has spoken of the need to resell the Mercedes and invest their money in shares or propery.

 One such property or shares he mentioned as a good investment is Will Ferrell. Ferrell loves monkeying about and currently offers shareholders three nitpicks of his scalp a year along with previews of upcoming films he stars in. In this regard Serendipity was quoting as saying  'Ooo, Oooo, Ahh, Ahh'



As we can see here in this speech, Ferrell is going bananas about the idea of reinvesting their money in a Special Monkey Unit. He wishes to arm them with spearguns. He envisions them entertaining children as well as undertaking secret missions . Watch this space...