Saturday, August 08, 2009

Bird Brains

Intelligence? It's for the birds. (It sure doesn't seem to be for certain people I'm not going to think about this weekend.) It's taken slow human scientists a long time to notice the varieties of intelligent skills in birds, possibly because their brains are embarrasingly small. (The birds I mean.) The latest bird to startle the scientists? No, not starlings. Rooks. It seems Aesop was something of a scientist himself.

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