Comments on: New Caledonian Crows—the Bird Geniuses—Blow Our Minds Again

By: Kasi Horman

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By: Markoff Chaney

Markoff Chaney — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:39:50 +0000

Nor dashed a thousand kim

By: amphiox

amphiox — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:54:38 +0000

#4;

That’s the BAND (birds are not dinosaurs) position, and it is most definitely not consensus. Not even close.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:28:09 +0000

@nick I thought the modern consensus was that birds split from dinosaurs at roughly the same time as the main archosaur branching? Due to the knee-running and seemingly incongruous fossil evidence of avian fossils pre-dating theropod evolution?

By: amphiox

amphiox — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:57:24 +0000

#2;

There’s a difference between “notice” and “understand”. We had no trouble whatsoever “noticing” the intelligence of corvids – they’ve always been considered to be cunning and intelligent critters, for longer than we’ve had writing, and in all likelihood longer than we’ve had civilization, maybe even longer than we’ve been our current species.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:21:14 +0000

These dinosaurs didn’t survive the extinction of the rest and evolve for 65 million more years for nothin. Just because we can’t understand them doesn’t mean they’re not intelligent, it only means we’re barely intelligent enough to recognize other kinds of intelligence. We just got lucky and dominated first.

I can’t imagine why we think we’re going to be able to notice extra-terrestrial intelligence if it takes us so long to understand the rest of what we got here.

By: GlidingPig

GlidingPig — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:12:30 +0000

I suspect many more animals are much smarter than we give them credit for.