{"id":985,"date":"2009-08-13T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:54:51","slug":"bridbrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Are YOU a bird brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/view\/page\/536641\/2087328\">It appears that calling someone a bird brain may not be such an insult after all <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New research suggests birds are smarter than apes.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists studied whether animals look at the physical world in the same way as humans and apes do.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the animals had to extract food from a horizontal tube by avoiding two holes cut into it where the food could fall out.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Professor Russell Gray says the animals were then given a similar puzzle &#8211; the only difference being it was a table with holes cut into it instead of a tube.<\/p>\n<p>He says the crows not only learnt to do it very well, it appears they understood what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Gray says it is a common assumption humans are closely related to apes, and the finding that birds are actually smarter may come as a surprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-985\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-985\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-985\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/bridbrain\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that calling someone a bird brain may not be such an insult after all New research suggests birds are smarter than apes. 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