alt Hacker NewsI work on some aspects of intelligence in birds, primarily in songbirds. There have been some effort finding general intelligence ("g" cognitive factor) in birds since last 15-20 years. The results have been mixed as you would expect. Animals' intelligence have evolved for survival and designing experiments to test those are quite hard.
Research has shown brain size matters but not that much, we should look at relative brain size.
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ninalanyon • last Monday at 5:20 PM
> Animals' intelligence have evolved for survival
What do you mean by this? Surely this applies to humans too, we are animals after all. So what distinction did you intend to make?
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> Animals' intelligence have evolved for survival and designing experiments to test those are quite hard.
My conure is extremely intelligent at times, learning a trick at the second try or doing what I ask him immediately. Most of the time, though, he understands but decides to just ignore me.