My vote goes to the Crested Pigeon, though the real winner, albeit
posthumously, would have to be the Dodo.
Carl Clifford
On 10/05/2009, at 12:04 PM, Stephen Ambrose wrote:
Okay, the next challenge, what is the dumbest bird species people have
seen?
My vote goes to the Emu. It is the bird species with the smallest brain
relative to body size, and it shows in the species' behavior in my
opinion.
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde, NSW
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From:
On Behalf Of John Leonard
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2009 11:28 AM
To: Birding-aus
Subject: An interesting item on avian intelligence
I think birds are generally more intelligent than we credit them.
Alex the African Grey parrot, who died recently, was a famous clever
bird who could use signs to communicate. But someone said of him that
there was no reason to believe he was any more intelligent than the
average African Grey Parrot; the challenging thing was finding an
intelligent human to devise ways that Alex could demonstrate
intelligence to humans-a talented interpreter!
John Leonard
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