A Bird’s IQ
Louis Lefebvre’s book A Bird’s IQ: Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World is engrossing, not to mention highly entertaining, by virtue of the many exampl...
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Louis Lefebvre’s book A Bird’s IQ: Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World is engrossing, not to mention highly entertaining, by virtue of the many exampl...
The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.
Female mountain chickadees within monogamous pairings proactively cheat on their partners with males that exhibit superior spatial intelligence.
A new study has uncovered a fundamental link between brain size and offspring size, helping to solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: Why do birds lay such disproportionately l...
Bumblebees may be smarter than we give them credit for, with a new study showing the fuzzy insects have the cognitive plasticity required to overcome novel challenges.Continue Read...
Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the...
New research suggests birding may be good for the brain. There's evidence it could help guard the brain against dementia and age related cognitive decline. Bradley Blackburn report...
Female chickadees living in monogamous mating systems will proactively seek out males that have better cognitive skills than their nest mate, according to new findings.
Female mountain chickadees are loyal to their mates, unless a smarter suitor comes along.
Bird navigation has puzzled animal scientists for a long time, despite decades of research, not least because each species seems to have its own flight manual and designing experim...
A scientist has brought us closer to talking to animals, and it's won her the 2026 Coller-Dolittle prize for two-way interspecies communication.Continue ReadingCategory:
Golden-cheeked Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers, Townsend’s Warblers, and Hermit Warblers share similar songs and plumage. Though they all breed in different areas of North...
A raven—neither particularly happy nor unhappy, just busy mending its own ways—came across a mixed flock of birds. The raven was a bit confused and tried to understand: “Why do you...
I once saw a comical looking bird the size of a small gull with a black cap, gray back and a bill that looked like a carrot was spotted stopping off on a beach in mid-coast Maine o...
"People tend to focus on birdsong, but there are many species making important sounds mechanically rather than vocally."
In today’s post, I would like to introduce you to a special guest: Bibo the Peacoock. His purpose for being here will be revealed later. For now, I would simply ask you to slowly r...
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Source
Happily, a recent philosopher has provided some intellectual tools for avoiding the sort of ham-fisted either/or approach to consciousness. Source
Bumble bees demonstrated an unexpected ability to solve a novel object-based challenge without training. A bee’s brain is smaller than a sesame seed, yet in a new experiment, some...
Inspired by Peter’s comment on one of my earlier posts on this blog, I decided to shine a spotlight on the often ignored Bananaquit. The reaction of birders to the presence of a Ba...
Figuring out how woodpeckers avoid brain damage has inspired humans working in fields like crash safety and helmet design.
Depending on your teenage years, the mere mention of superlatives could either bring back fond memories or resurrect deeply buried trauma. Either way, forget about all that—these s...
An ancient dietary change made the manakin’s flashy courtship display possible, a new study suggests.
Birds are often presented to us as symbols of grace, romance, freedom, and triumph. And to be fair, they do look convincing from a distance. But closer observation suggests that el...
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