Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

Bird brains may be tiny, but they pack in as many—or more—neurons as much larger animals. Similar to humans and other animals with higher intelligence, the executive center of a bird's brain allows ...

Whenever the issue of intelligence arises, human beings and mammals are usually the first ones to come to mind. And yet there is a rhetorical method of birds to disapprove of this notion. This has ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...