Birds Not So Stupid After All

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-22-2007 | Roger Highfield

[Sender]

Duh, animals will always plan for shortages. We don't need scientists to point this out. Animals have dealt with this problem for millenniums.

What gets me is when the local birds start talking about my family, my homies. They have no right to judge. They're in a stinking nest in a tree. Got ya beat. So there.

[digger48]

Yeah, but I know a Loon when I see one

[guinnessman]

I agree, although I'm not so sure about David Crosby.

[GSlob]

Big deal. My late cat was always setting himself on a newspaper in a proper relation to the text - never sideways to it, and never upside down. From which it is obvious that he was literate, and not merely literate but even multilingual, in at least three languages. What he was finding in the newspapers, though, remains a mystery.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, you'd be surprised what a borrowed liver can do to a bird's intelligence.

[sgtbono2002]

Even ants and squirrels do that.

Jiminy Cricket LOL

[sgtbono2002]

Now theres a squirrel right there.

[SamAdams76]

Hummingbirds will travel from someplace in Brazil to someplace in Alabama every year and then back again for winter. They go to the exact same places too.

Migrating birds have also picked up on our Interstate highway system. You can see them over the highways in spring and fall. It's like they have a Rand McNally Road Atlas hardwired in their tiny little heads.

[I see my hands]

"They're in a stinking nest in a tree"

I chide my birds all the time for not being human. It just rolls off of their beaks until I further point out they aren't even mammals.

[LiteKeeper]

Golden Plover migrates from Alaska to Hawaii and back. Not much room for error.

[Farmer Dean]

Looks kind of like a doodoo to me.

[HighWheeler]

In my younger days I helped worked with the birds used for a Disney-like entertainment stage show. The crows were geniuses, the parrots and almost all other hooked beaks were not far behind. Even the cockatiels (also hook beaks)were funnier than hell as they tried to convince you that you should let them out and play with them. The emus were dumb as bricks.

[Conservative4Ever]

Don't have to tell me...we have Jays who take the peanuts left out and bury them in flower pots, fields, flower beds, etc. They go back to find them at a latter date. Not so dumb.

[Bob Mc]

Penquin joke

[guinnessman]

LOL!

[Beagle8U]

""This is the first evidence that an animal can plan for the future," said Prof Nicky Clayton, who led the research team."

HUH? What about squirrels that store nuts for winter?

( Well, except the ones in California that tend to play with their nuts rather than store them.)

[Kevmo]

bump for later reading

[FLOutdoorsman]

I've seen Crows do some pretty amazing things.

I've watched Crows pick up Hickory nuts and Pecans and drop them on roads to crack them open. Pretty cool.

[HighWheeler]

BuWahahahahahahah!!! Hilarious!