Birds are often loved for their beauty and elegance, but some also possess remarkable intelligence. Some birds have shown an ability to solve complex problems whereas others can even mimic human ...

Crows remember your face, manufacture their own tools, and outsmart animals far larger than themselves. What researchers keep uncovering about these birds keeps forcing scientists to rewrite the rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Little by little, the well-established myth of the stupid bird is crumbling. Just a few months ago, researchers reported that some birds are as smart as apes. Now another team of scientists say that ...

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 ...

Many avian species are threatened, but conservation efforts and birds’ high intelligence offer hope. Weidensaul begins the book with the bad news, by taking the reader through a history of escalating ...