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Is a bird brain
the same as ours
well yes and no this is an interesting you sound like a lawyer now
yeah
when you look at a bird brain it looks nothing like our brains our brain has all these
called
you know it's all 0:00:22.329,0:00:26.150 these hills and valleys and it's very complicated looking
you look at a birds brain it looks like a blob of stuff 0:00:29.359,0:00:30.880
it turns out that even in
that even in the nineteen hundred's 0:00:36.670,0:00:39.330 was doing work showing that they were
bird brain areas that seemed to be responsible for intelligent behavior
at the time they called it a striatel area
it seemed that birds with the largest striatel areas the parents the crows the Jays
would do better on intelligence tests
than those birds with a smaller striatel area's relative to the size of a brain
and
fast forward to the nineteen seventies and people start looking at these song learning centers
and started realizing that they were centers of song learning that were similar to our language
learning centers
but there's no cerebral cortex in the avian brain
the part of the brain in 0:01:17.310,0:01:20.180 mammals and primates that is responsible for intelligence
and I think about
you go find it because the bird is doing this stuff and he's using something to do it
twenty other
neuro scientists
they publish showing
all this work they've been doing for a decade
showing that the avian brain has a cortical like area
it's developed its drive from the same
area
as the mammalian brain going back two hundred and eighty million years ago to the dinosaurs
and that those birds as we knew before the parrots the crows the jays
with the relatively larger
area in this brain
is responsible for these
relatively more intelligent behaviour
so it doesn't look like our brain
but it functions like our brain
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