Whenever the issue of intelligence arises, human beings and mammals are usually the first ones to come to mind. And yet there ...

Similar to humans and other animals with higher intelligence, the executive center of a bird's brain allows them to strategize and organize ideas. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Birds are smart. A large empirical database on their cognitive capacities supports this claim, and readers of Psychology Today can learn more about this topic from the excellent essays posted under ...

When it comes to the smartest bird, we humans still have a lot to learn. Bird intelligence comes in many forms, and scientists are finding that many species exhibit intelligence similar to that of ...

Crows and their corvid kin have brains that, relative to their body size, are among the largest of any bird. Crows congregate in Burnaby, British Columbia. Research suggests that like humans and other ...

Warming ocean waters due to human-caused climate change are spurring more hurricanes to rapidly intensify, Carolyn Gramling reported in “Why hurricanes intensify so swiftly” (SN: 10/7/23 & 10/21/23, p ...

The test for any breakthrough technology is often where you least expect it, but once it “conquers” that application, even more possibilities may emerge. We all know that artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology who have converted dead birds into flying drones are now considering the possibility of adding an array of technologies, including ...

Don't use the pejorative "bird-brained" when you're talking to a parrot owner. "Parrots are very smart birds, on the level with chimps, dogs and dolphins when it comes to animal intelligence," says ...

Bird Buddy, an award-winning tech for nature company, has launched two amazing products that enhance the enjoyment of birds with the Bird Buddy Smart Feeder, Nature Intelligence, and Nature Connected ...

Birds are amazing beings. They're smart and emotional, and rapidly accumulating data from detailed research shows they have advanced and highly evolved cognitive capacities. Psychology Today writers ...

As my father and I trudged up a snowy trail in Valles Caldera National Preserve, hoping to get a better view of an elk herd the next ridge over, a gray-and-black bird acknowledged our presence with a ...