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Why the tiger, not the lion, is king of the jungle

By Adeline Darrow
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Lions may face a challenge to the species’ long reign as king of the jungle, after scientists from Oxford University found that tigers have the bigger brains. By measuring the skull size and volume of a large sample of tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars, they found that the tiger has a bigger brain than its big-cat cousins. “When we compare the two biggest species, on average the...

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