Study says pigeons may be smarter than you thinkMIAMI: Pigeons may be smarter than you think. A study out on Monday in the Current Biology journal found that pigeons are able to judge time and space, much the way humans and apes can. Researchers then made the task more complicated, introducing more line lengths and making the test vary so pigeons could be tested at random on either space or time. “Pigeons judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length,” said the report. But the area of the brain in humans where this processing takes place – the parietal cortex – does not appear to exist in pigeons.

Source: Pakistan Today December 04, 2017 20:15 UTC