Subject: [Tweeters] Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
Date: Feb 1 07:49:43 2005
From: Joel Levin - joellevin at comcast.net



Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Published: February 1, 2005

Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is
that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many
years. But that notion has increasingly been called into question as crows
and parrots, among other birds, have shown what appears to be behavior as
intelligent as that of chimpanzees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01bird.html [registration may be
necessary]