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Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?



Jaime A. Headden writes:

  I wouldn't say intelligence per se as a general and relatively undefined
quanta,  but it does seem that flight requires heightened sense and processing
regions in the brain that become larger and inflated relative to other portions
of the brain. These technical regions of the brain are in the cerebral cortex,
so this seems likely to cause larger brains in general.

I thought birds had little in the way of a cerebral cortex (even the apparently 'intelligent' species)?


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