Animals {MASS} | R Documentation

## Brain and Body Weights for 28 Species

### Description

Average brain and body weights for 28 species of land animals.

### Usage

    data(Animals)

### Format

`body`
  body weight in kg
`brain`
  brain weight in g

### Note

The name `Animals` avoids conflicts with a system dataset in S-PLUS 4.5 and later.

Line 26, `rats` was missing in versions of MASS prior to 6.2pl003

### Source

P. J. Rousseeuw and A. M. Leroy (1987) Robust Regression and Outlier Detection. Wiley, p. 57.