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- From: kontos@clipper.ingr.com (Thorne Kontos)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.pets
- Subject: CAtat's brains are shrinking from urban stress
- Keywords: New scientific study...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.172915.2742@clipper.ingr.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:29:15 GMT
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- Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA
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- In a finding that will not surprise any dog lovers, scientists at the
- University of Tennessee have discovered that the brains of cats are
- shrinking. The root cause of this curious fact was directly related
- to urban stress.
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- By producing offspring with significantly fewer brain cells, a mother
- cat could support more kittens. Sounds a bit like some welfare mother
- cases and neighbors calling for their mandatory sterilization...
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