Crows and jays top bird IQ scale

[Dover]

Crows and jays top bird IQ scale


By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter, in Washington DC

Crows acquire food in inventive ways
Crows and jays are the brain boxes of the bird world, according to a Canadian scientist who has invented a method of measuring avian IQ.

The IQ scale is based on the number of novel feeding behaviours shown by birds in the wild.

The test's creator Dr Louis Lefebvre was surprised that parrots were not high in the pecking order - despite their relatively large brains.

The research was presented at a major science conference in Washington DC.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4286965.stm


They must not have grackles in Canada, or the results might have been different. In Texas they are the survivalists. And Mockingbirds seem highly adaptable and bright as well.

[Maple]

1. The observation

wasn't of Canadian birds, but of birds all over the world.

[Dover]

2. I understand that.......just my way of poking fun at the notorious grackle

...nuissance extraordinaire.