Bird species with larger than average brains ... He and colleagues have for years looked at the differences between big-brained birds, such as crows and parrots, and those with smaller brains ...

Big brains suck even more energy ... Photo: Ingrid Taylar Gonzalez-Voyer and his team found a direct link between a bird’s brain size relative to its body and its lifespan, across different ...

On the other hand, the cerebrum — the part of the brain associated with higher level cognition — was fairly big. It was much larger than that of the bird-like dinosaurs that came before and ...

Bird brain sizes are also hugely variable, ranging from relatively small-brained chickens and ostriches to some of the smartest large-brained species such as parrots and corvids. Note that we are ...

For example, the breeding range for the Bohemian waxwing, a bird well known to ... "Larger brain sizes correlate with more flexible behavior, so big-brained birds are usually expected to be ...

The entire premise of Chicken Run hinges on the juxtaposition of their supposed lack of intelligence and their increasingly bird-brained schemes ... war levied by Big Chicken — but the evidence ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A... Small fossil has big implications for bird brain ...

Global bird sightings from citizen scientists and a view into ... “Larger brain sizes correlate with more flexible behavior, so big-brained birds are usually expected to be more adaptable,” Botero ...