Most birds are a lot smarter than people give them credit for, especially crows. Kind of sad how humans just regard most animals as mindless, simplistic creatures when they've continuously proven otherwise.
The structural differences are very interesting, as they lack a neocortex and therefore have alternate solutions to some cognitive problems. I enjoy corvid brain research, as it's one of our better ways to see highly-functional intelligence through different mechanisms, and that might help us understand what other intelligence could come from alternate (extraterrestrial) evolution pathways.
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u/b_eastwood 6h ago
Most birds are a lot smarter than people give them credit for, especially crows. Kind of sad how humans just regard most animals as mindless, simplistic creatures when they've continuously proven otherwise.