An African grey parrot beat 21 Harvard undergrads at a classic memory game, suggesting deep roots of animal intelligence. Source: https://www.livescience.com/grey-parrot-beats-harvard-students.html
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Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates
In a piece for the BBC, Chris Baraniuk writes about how the intelligence of New Caledonian crows may be far more advanced than we ever thought possible. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Intelligence is rooted in the brain. Clever primates — including humans — have a particular structure in their brains called the neocortex. It is thought…