Primates

Good news for big-time networking primates: other primates that live in large social groups have more [street:sweet] smarts than their [comrades:prides] with smaller social circles. So finds a study in the journal Plus One. Researchers tested the [circumstances:advances] under which lemurs would pilfer food from people. The study included ring-tailed lemurs, which come from large social groups, as well as lemurs small-groups, like the mongoose lemur. The [lemurs:lenses] all had the same brain size, so would be presumed to have similar raw [intelligence:presence] .