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How Smart Are Corvids

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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Kaylee Swift: For a really long time, we in the Western science community didn't really appreciate that birds could be smart. She says bird brains are very different from the mammalian brain. Swift: Birds like crows and ravens and some parrots have a much higher neuronal density than any of the primates. They're doing a lot in a very small space because their brains are about the size of a walnut.

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