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SCIENTISTS ARE SURPRISED BY THE
INTELLIGENCE MANIFESTED IN BIRDS
Carlio Melo, a brain researcher in
Rockefeller University’s animal be-
havior laboratory, says: “. . . in the be-
ginning of the century up to the 30th
and 40th, people believed that the
brain of birds were very simple and
they were considered primitive. And
that created a lot of problems, a lot of
prejudice actually. It's funny to think about
this in science, but it does happen. … Birds
are very, very intelligent in many ways…
That means many birds, particularly those
birds that have vocal learning such as song
birds, parrots and hummingbirds, they
have a very high brain to body ratio… That
means these are very, very smart animals.”
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