![]() ![]() We're introduced to several bird species that demonstrate each type of intelligence, and even get to know some individual birds by name, as they became well-known by the researchers studying them. The book discusses several different areas of intelligence (tool use, navigation abilities, social intelligence, artistic skills etc) with a chapter for each. ![]() It also aims to dispel the myth of birds being stupid, as exemplified by insults such as "bird brain". This book aims to analyze the nature of bird intelligence, covering both the similarities between avian and mammalian intelligence, as well as the areas where birds have different and superior mental abilities. In a sign of convergent evolution, however, bird brains have developed some structures that seem analogous to those in mammalian brains despite having evolved separately. ![]() ![]() It's not as extreme as the difference between human and cephalopod intelligence that was discussed in Other Minds, but there are many ways in which our intelligence differs from that of birds. Birds have a significantly different brain structure to our own and have developed many aspects of their intelligence independently. The Genius of Birds - Si On Science - Book Reviews Home About Contactīirds and humans have a common ancestor from around 300 million years ago, and since that time their brains have been evolving separately to those of mammals. ![]()
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