California's dwarf Channel Island foxes mostly have relatively bigger brains than their larger mainland gray fox cousins, which may reflect island-specific evolutionary pressures

California's dwarf Channel Island foxes mostly have relatively bigger brains than their larger mainland gray fox cousins, which may reflect island-specific evolutionary pressures

Article URL : http://plos.io/4m6uyhk

Article title: Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox ( Urocyon littoralis ) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication

Author countries: U.S.

Funding: Funding for this project and Kimberly's PhD research was provided by Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California; the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Offield Family Foundation; and the USC Women in Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

PLOS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0328893

Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication

20-Aug-2025

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.