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Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 14:54:48 +1000 (EST)
In comparion to some of our pet chooks, crested pigeons are probably quite
bright. I've never seen a pigeon persist day after day in laying an egg on
a sloping window ledge....

Andrew Bell

> My vote goes to the Crested Pigeon, though the real winner, albeit
> posthumously, would have to be the Dodo.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> _______________________
>
> The Dodo appears to have been well adapted to the life it had been living
> on
> an island with no humans or other predators but was unable to evolve
> quickly
> enough (within a hundred years or so) to be able to face the challenges
> (humans and those that come with them, rats, pigs, cats etc) of the new
> environment. This doesn't make them stupid or dumb.
>
> As a 1 metre tall flightless bird. probably the only adaptations one can
> made are to increase one's size to be more over powering than one's
> hunters
> (like the cassowary) or regain flight (there may be birds who have done
> this?). Not living on an island would be an assistance too.
>
> Of course that leads neatly to the question of the nature of intelligence,
> fitness for the environment one is living in and a range of related
> matters.
>
> cheers
> storm
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