The tiny brain of the pigeons works the same as our

These urban birds are considered to be almost as stupid as chicken, and contemptuously called "rats with wings". Meanwhile, the real pigeon is not only a symbol of peace, the brave postman, but also just clever. Experiments have shown that they are capable of abstractions, separating items by category.





Scientists from the University of Iowa conducted experiments with three pigeons, which one after another were shown photos of 128 different items from 16 groups: children, bottles, cakes, cars, dogs, ducks, fish, flowers, hats, keys, cookies, pens, phone, cards, shoes, trees. In parallel, they were shown cards, one of which was painted the symbol of the respective group – for example, an abstract tree – and the second – the symbol of another group, not associated with the image in the photograph. Pigeons needed, klyunuv to choose only one of them: the right decision, they received the award.

"Our birds are trained to distinguish objects in parallel for all 16 categories, comment scientists, just like children". The efficiency of this method was astounding: soon the pigeons began to accurately relate the photos to the desired group, and moreover, after the presentation of unfamiliar pictures successfully took them to one category or another. published

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Of course, this is not the first indication of the remarkable ability of "bird brain" to cope with the tasks that have long been considered the prerogative of the human mind. But now you may stop contemptuously treat their neighbors through the urban jungle and call them "rats with wings".I

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