Scientists once thought that planning required a primate brain. Experiments with birds are now proving that assumption wrong.

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 ...

Bird brains may be tiny, but they pack in as many—or more—neurons as much larger animals. Similar to humans and other animals with higher intelligence, the executive center of a bird's brain allows ...

Meet the kea, New Zealand’s mischievous alpine parrot, whose intelligence rivals primates. Curious, playful, and fearless, these birds solve puzzles, outsmart humans, and live in harsh mountains, ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution. A ...

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 ...

Crows and their corvid kin have brains that, relative to their body size, are among the largest of any bird. Crows congregate in Burnaby, British Columbia. Research suggests that like humans and other ...

Bird Buddy, an award-winning tech for nature company, has launched two amazing products that enhance the enjoyment of birds with the Bird Buddy Smart Feeder, Nature Intelligence, and Nature Connected ...

The test for any breakthrough technology is often where you least expect it, but once it “conquers” that application, even more possibilities may emerge. We all know that artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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 ...

Birds are smart. A large empirical database on their cognitive capacities supports this claim, and readers of Psychology Today can learn more about this topic from the excellent essays posted under ...