Vulturine Guineafowl have complex societies (1 Viewer)

jurek · Nov 14, 2019

Birds make it again! Vulturine Guineafowl, despite having small brains, live in multi-level societies like some most intelligent mammals.

The original article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320719306901
Layman's version:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/birds-society-vulturine-guineafowl.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/small-brained-birds-live-in-surprisingly-complex-societies/

Microtus · Nov 15, 2019

Hi Jurek, the Science Direct link takes me to an interesting article about pigeons.

eta: Here's the guinea fowl article:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31263-1

Farnboro John · Nov 15, 2019

jurek said:
Birds make it again! Vulturine Guineafowl, despite having small brains, live in multi-level societies like some most intelligent mammals.

The original article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320719306901
Layman's version:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/birds-society-vulturine-guineafowl.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/small-brained-birds-live-in-surprisingly-complex-societies/

Not sure I agree about living in multi-level societies being connected to intelligence

Personally I think apart from being a prey animal, deer have it sorted: live all year with your mates while the ladies raise the kids, have a two week punch-up over mating rights and then meet up with the boys all friends again.... :t:

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