Neural connections may underlie intelligence in birds
The health and science-oriented magazine STAT has an article from Sharon Begley on recent research that looks at bird intelligence: “Brainiacs, not birdbrain...
All posts tagged with birds
Notable: Penguin population turnover from ancient DNA
Notable paper: Stefanie Grosser, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Christian N. K. Anderson, Ian W. G. Smith, R. Paul Scofield, Jonathan M. Waters. 2016. Invader or resid...
Crows hate cavemen
Stephanie Pappas reports on experiments with social learning in crows.
Rooks, tools, and "domain general" cognition
Christopher Bird and Nathan Emery (2009) performed a number of tool use experiments on rooks – birds related to crows (corvids) that do not use tools in the ...