Posted by: Sandy Steinman | November 16, 2019

Tiny Brains Don’t Stop These Birds From Having a Complex Society 

The New York Times reported

A study published Monday in Current Biology shows that the vulturine guineafowl of eastern Africa, like humans, have many-layered societies. In the past, scientists hypothesized that such social structures require a lot of brainpower. But the pea-brained guineafowl are revealing the flaws in that assumption.

Read full story at Tiny Brains Don’t Stop These Birds From Having a Complex Society – The New York Times


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