Why birds are smarter than we think Birds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable Intelligence is sometimes called a birdbrain. -- Library Journal.
Written by a leading expert and featuring a foreword by Frans de Waal, renowned for his work on animal intelligence, Bird Brain shines critical new light on the mental lives of birds.
This lively and accessible book shows how birds have sophisticated brains with abilities previously thought to be uniquely human, such as mental time travel, self-recognition, empathy, problem solving, imagination, and insight.
It offers insights into crows, jays, magpies, and other corvids--the masterminds of the Avian world--as well as parrots and some less-studied species from around the world.
Bird Brain looks at the structures and functions of the Avian brain, and describes the extraordinary behaviors that different types of Avian Intelligence give rise to.
This beautifully illustrated book provides an engaging Exploration of the Avian mind, revealing how science is exploding one of the most widespread myths about our feathered friends--and changing the way we think about Intelligence in other animals as well.
From a time when birds were seen as simple instinct machines responding only to stimuli in their external worlds, we now know that some birds have complex internal worlds as well.
Yet in the past two decades, the study of Avian Intelligence has witnessed dramatic advances.
Why birds are smarter than we think Birds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable Intelligence is sometimes called a birdbrain
