Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds even rival humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence.
Consider the Clark's nutcracker, a bird that can hide as many as 30,000 seeds over dozens of square miles and remember where it put them several months later; the mockingbirds and thrashers, species that can store 200 to 2,000 different songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than ours; the well-known pigeon, which knows where it's going, even thousands of miles from familiar territory; and the New Caledonian crow, an impressive bird that makes its own tools.
In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds, but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself and what it means to be intelligent. RA (portions provided by publisher).
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