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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

1 April 2022

Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information

Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

9 February 2018

Zebra finches sing during the day, and at night while they sleep their vocal organs act out the motions of singing, a bit like a sleepwalking person

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