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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence.
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In The Genius of Birds acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of researchthe distant laboratories of Barbados and New Caledonia the great tit communities of the United Kingdom and the bowerbird habitats of Australia the ravaged mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy and the warming mountains of central Virginia and the western statesAckerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent.
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Consider as Ackerman does the Clarks nutcracker a bird that can hide as many as 30000 seeds over dozens of square miles and remember several months later where it put them or the mockingbirds and thrashers species that can store 200 to 2??000 different songs in a brain a thousand times sm