Birds don’t get enough credit for the magnificent creatures they are. Many people have heard a black-capped chickadee ...

Birds are amazing beings. They're smart and emotional, and rapidly accumulating data from detailed research shows they have advanced and highly evolved cognitive capacities. Psychology Today writers ...

A bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals the roots of avian intelligence, according to a new study. The "one of a kind" fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique ...

on a university campus in Japan. Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt. When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they ...

When it comes to the smartest bird, we humans still have a lot to learn. Bird intelligence comes in many forms, and scientists are finding that many species exhibit intelligence similar to that of ...

Winter is a season when most of us spend more of our time indoors. But wild animals don’t have that option. Not only must they find ways to keep warm all winter, but they have to work harder to find ...

Delayed gratification — the ability to sacrifice an immediate reward for a more valuable one in the future — can tell us a lot about intelligence. While once believed to be a uniquely human trait, ...

Birds and humans have very different networks of neurons in their brains. Nevertheless, their working memory is limited by similar mechanisms. The working memory is the brain's ability to process ...

Whenever the issue of intelligence arises, human beings and mammals are usually the first ones to come to mind. And yet there is a rhetorical method of birds to disapprove of this notion. This has ...

As my father and I trudged up a snowy trail in Valles Caldera National Preserve, hoping to get a better view of an elk herd the next ridge over, a gray-and-black bird acknowledged our presence with a ...

There are few animals in the world which elicit as much controversy as the humble pigeon. On the one hand, pigeon enthusiasts breed carrier pigeons as pets and for sporting purposes. Some are even ...

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