From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 26 1997 - 06:43:28 MDT
At 11:47 AM 9/25/97 -0700, a 22 year old wrote:
>I've often thought that for a given brain/body ratio flying birds and
>bats should be dumber than mammals.
<cogent analysis snipped>
Possibly not. Take a look at the peculiar and startling findings in
Theodore Xenophon Barber's, THE HUMAN NATURE OF BIRDS (1993). Dr Barber is
a celebrated research psychologist. He seems to consider that some
bird-brains are on the verge of true speech.
Damien Broderick
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