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Interesting. Could have opened possibilies for intelligence to have utility. BTW parrots are quite dextrous with their feet and tongue.
by hyperpallium 7y ago
Interesting. Could have opened possibilies for intelligence to have utility. BTW parrots are quite dextrous with their feet and tongue.
- WalterBright 7y agoUnfortunately for parrots, they cannot evolve larger brains without giving up flying. I suspect that birds in general have very optimized brains because of the weight constraints.
- hyperpallium 7y agoThough flightlessness is an option: emu, penguin, dodo, even a parrot (New Zealand Kakapo).
- WalterBright 7y agoUnsurprisingly, those evolved where they had fewer predators they needed to fly away from.
- teslaberry 7y agoWe probably ate the smartest animals. We know we ate mamoths to extinction. We ate a lot of whales. It stands to reason we ate other animals of karger physical bodyband brain size. We ate some ostrich species. Shame