Francis Ratnieks' reputation precedes him, so if this is spurious, it is
solely due to an over-enthusiastic university PR department.
For those unfamiliar with PR departments of all shapes and sizes, and their
treatment of otherwise highly-qualified findings presented with error bars
and everything, see this cartoon, which is only funny because it is the
unvarnished universal truth:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ScienceNewsCycle.gif
http://tinyurl.com/qut4cj


I did send the PR dept a note asking where they got their facts.  I got the
standard Academia student reply
"we are out of the office until Jan 4th"

More update then!

Charles

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