Apparently the days of "bird brain" being an insult are coming to a close since researchers in evolutionary biology and neuroscience from universities in Australia and Canada teamed up to make digital endocasts inside bird skeletons empty cranial space. They were surprised by the results as it revealed birds have big brains with large computation centers for smartness and nimbleness. They also expanded the study to extinct bird skulls with the same findings, however the same did not hold true for the birds closest living relative the crocodile, so I suppose the "bird brain" insult could be switched to crocodile brain. This is not surprising news for anyone who has ever been around or watched birds, we already knew they were smart.
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