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Any reading recs for actual info on bird brains?
by tech_ken 3y ago
Any reading recs for actual info on bird brains?
- tokai 3y agoOlkowicz, et al. (2016) Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1517131113 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1517131113
- KineticLensman 3y agoSorry, nothing specific. A while ago I read 'Bird Sense' by Tim Birkhead but this is about their sensory systems rather than their intelligence as such, and is a bit discursive. There are a couple of useful starting points on Wikipedia, such as [0] and [1]. In general, birds are sometimes surprisingly different to mammals. Their eyes are quite different. For example, raptor vision has a much higher acuity and framerate than ours, and many birds do different things with their left and right eyes. Their respiration is also different (including lungs that have 'in' and 'out' pipes), which allows something like a falcon to eat the moment it has finished hunting, unlike say a cheetah, which has to get its breath back before eating after a successful chase. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_brain [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence
- bwestergard 3y agoJennifer Ackerman's "The Bird Way"
- Fricken 3y agoInstagram. There's a bottomless supply of videos showing birds being clever