Chickens aren’t generally considered to be the smartest animals. The entire premise of Chicken Run hinges on the juxtaposition of their supposed lack of intelligence and their increasingly bird ...

And plenty of large, long-lived birds haven't ended up with any behaviors indicating intelligence. So, even if this does hold up, there's a lot we don't know about why some animals end up intelligent.

Of course, the bird world has its share of “bird brains.” There are the birds that build three nests behind three holes under a flower pot, because they can't remember which is which, and ...

Notably, birds achieve such feats with brains that look completely different from ours: They’re smaller and lack the highly organized structures that scientists associate with mammalian intelligence. ...

In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and have now deciphered human water fountains. Australia’s sulphur-crested ...

For much of the 20th century, birds were deemed simpletons for the simple reason that they do not have a neocortex the six-layered structure in mammals that is associated with more sophisticated ...

Birds are often loved for their beauty and elegance, but some also possess remarkable intelligence. Some birds have shown an ability to solve complex problems whereas others can even mimic human ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

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Tech for nature start-up, Bird Buddy, has launched its new AI product, 'Nature Intelligence'.At the same time, the award-winning tech business has launched the 'Nature Connected Home', a new smart ...

It came from a prehistoric bird that fills in a crucial gap in understanding of how modern bird brains evolved. The bird lived roughly 80 million years ago, some 10 to 20 million years before the ...