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Do birds have brains?

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Parrots and the corvid family of crows, ravens, and jays are considered the most intelligent of birds. ... Dr. Harvey J. Karten, a neuroscientist at UCSD who has studied the physiology of birds, has discovered that the lower parts of avian brains are similar to those of humans. read more

Anatomically, birds (the 10,000 species of which are the direct living descendants of, and so are, theropod dinosaurs) have relatively large brains compared to their head size. The visual and auditory senses are well developed in most species, while the tactile and olfactory senses are well realized only in a few groups. read more

Birds have a relatively small cortex. In the 1960s neurologist Stanley Cobb discovered that birds use a part of the brain, which mammals do not have, as their main area of intelligence. This is the hpertriatum, and is at the front of a bird’s brain. read more

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