Rowena Alison

 Hey, it's Flora, we have something different for you today. And I hope you like it.I was on a road last week I spent ideas new ideas festival, moderating a conversation about the brilliance of birds and I have to say the facts I learned kindly blew my mind, So, the conversation was with Jennifer Ackerman, the author of the New York time best seller, The Genius of Birds and Alex Taylor, a biologist whose studies New Caledonian crows, these are the tool makers of the Avian world. And after talking with them, I cannot look the birds in the same way. And I think after listening to this chats, you will feel the same. We are hope so. Okay, So, here’s some highlights from net conversation, which by the way took place outside. So you might hear the win to jumping occasionally. Jennifer, I want to start with you. When people used the term bird brain,it’s not typically a complement so has our perspective on bird cleverness is it shifting. Yes, so the miss perception of bird is stupid, really exploited in a misunderstanding of a nature and anatomy of a bird brain. So, we used to think that the bird brain were so small and primitive. They were really capable of the simplest mental processes and most of them extinctive birds were basically taught as a packing out of the tongues.Well,now, we all know that it’s not true, birds can think logically, and reason on far with young children, they can solve complex problems, they can make unused their own tools, they can count, they can understand basic principles of physics like cause and effect, they can communicating ways that resembles language, and they can pass along cultural traditions whether its moods of songs or styles of tool making. And birds do all of these with the brain so small if they fit inside or not. So, birds in fact have cognitive skills that are in many ways comprovoke our climate relatives and rest so our reptilian ones.